256: Military On The Street

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🗓️ 4 October 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Jill Wine-Banks hosts #SistersInLaw to preview the upcoming SCOTUS term and the cases that will define our future, spanning LGBTQ+ rights, campaign finance, and excessive executive power at a time when the justices have a critical impact on law and policy. Then, the #Sisters castigate the Trump administration for making government agencies political by sending ICE into our communities, considering the militarization of our cities, and choosing convenient falsehoods over facts. They also discuss a recent ruling that resoundingly upholds the 1st Amendment for everyone of all backgrounds while in the United States.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to hashtag sisters-in-law with Joyce Fance, Barb McQuaid, and me, Jill Wine Banks.
0:17.9	Kim is out this week, but she'll be back soon.
0:20.8	The brand- new resistance hoodie
0:23.1	that Kim designed is now available to order. Go to Politicon.com slash merch. And you know because
0:30.7	Kim designed it, it's really stylish. It's short and really fits well. You'll love wearing it, and I would say October 18th is a
0:41.1	good time to wear it. Go to the resistance marches. No Kings Day. We have a great show plan for you
0:49.2	today. We're going to be discussing next Monday, which is the first day of Scotus' term, and so we're
0:55.6	going to preview cases you need to know about. We're going to talk about what happened at Quantico
1:01.0	and other uses of government powers to pursue political goals. Then we will have a discussion of a
1:10.0	very powerful, very intriguingly written First Amendment opinion,
1:17.5	saying non-citizens lawfully in America have the same rights as citizens and can't be deported for their lawful speech.
1:25.6	But before we get to those heavier topics, I want to talk about
1:30.7	something that I have started doing, which is with the news just bearing down on us and with
1:37.6	things being so bad, I have found some newsletters or games that I use at the end of the day to say, okay, I'm going to just have
1:46.4	some fun. And I use wordle every night. That's my sort of signal. I'm turning off my brain from
1:53.3	all the news, and I'm going to just focus on, can I do the wordle? I also do connections and strands, and sometimes the mini, but one of my very good
2:04.6	friends does it in like 43 seconds, and it takes me three minutes, so I feel stupid. But I'm just
2:11.8	wondering, do any of you have some kind of thing that you use? What about you, Barb? Very similar, Jill. Well, a couple of things.
2:22.0	I do like to play games. And, you know, I bet there's one I play that you don't. And that is,
2:26.6	you may play connections, New York Times word game. Yeah. I play sports connections.
2:31.8	Oh, God.
2:33.0	Similar, but it's all sports themed. I enjoyed that one very much. But I know what you mean
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