238: Pardons For The Rich & The Famous
#SistersInLaw
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🗓️ 31 May 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Jill Wine-Banks hosts #SistersInLaw to castigate Trump for the questionable pardons he’s recently issued, lay out how they might represent a quid pro quo, and explain their potential illegality. Then, the #Sisters expose how MAGA is using the “Big Beautiful Bill” to neuter the judicial system, and discuss why the checks and balances that it steamrolls are integral to our system. They also delve into the latest developments in his administration’s attacks on universities, examining the rights involved, the limits of executive power, and what it means for the future of free thought and democracy.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to hashtag Sisters-in-law with Joyce Vance, Kimberly Atkins Store, Barb McQuaid, and me, Jill Wine Banks. |
| 0:20.1 | There is big news, guys, the new resistance minitote is ready for |
| 0:25.1 | pre-order. And if you want to be a fashionista, you have to have a mini tote. I didn't know that |
| 0:33.1 | until I got my mini tote. And everybody said said this is what everyone is using. |
| 0:39.2 | And it also expresses your political views because it's resists for the sisters, |
| 0:45.6 | resistance. And you will love it. Go to politicon.com slash merch to get yours now. |
| 0:52.5 | Now, let's get on to the show where we are going to be discussing a recent |
| 0:58.1 | slew of pardons by Donald Trump, a recent attempt to stop courts from being able to issue |
| 1:05.6 | contempt orders for violating any of their orders, and what's going on at Harvard and the lawsuits that |
| 1:14.2 | are involving the Trump administration. But before we get to all that really important stuff, |
| 1:21.2 | I want to talk about something equally important, which I am very excited about, and that is |
| 1:26.5 | that Barb McQuaid's book is coming out in paperback on June 3rd, and it's so exciting, and you can pre-order it now. |
| 1:35.9 | We've all posted on social media, a link to buy her book in paperback, and you will love it. It is so important. I was at a big event yesterday for the Smithsonian's |
| 1:47.5 | new National Women's Museum and I was telling everybody there about it and people, I'm sending |
| 1:54.0 | them the link and they are ordering your book, Barb, so I'm pre-selling your book for you. |
| 1:59.2 | No, thanks so much, Jill. Yeah, in fact, I'm excited. |
| 2:01.6 | We'll put a link in the show notes to order the book if anybody doesn't have it yet. |
| 2:06.3 | But I'll be in New York on Tuesday. |
| 2:08.3 | In fact, I'm doing an event with Loretta Lynch, the former Attorney General of the United States. |
| 2:12.2 | And Joyce and my former colleague, she was the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn before she was the AG. We're going to be |
| 2:17.7 | in conversation at NYU on Tuesday evening. So if you're in the New York area, I hope you'll come |
| 2:24.1 | out and join us. Admission is free, but you do have to register in advance. So I'll put a link to |
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