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#SistersInLaw

266: Two Days

#SistersInLaw

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Politics, News Commentary, News

4.89.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Barb McQuade hosts #SistersInLaw to celebrate the DOJ’s 3rd consecutive failure to indict NY AG Letitia James, review the law governing mortgages that they are targeting her with, and call out their other recent losses, spanning James Comey to Kilmar Abrego Garcia.  Then, the #Sisters discuss Judge Charles Breyer’s preliminary injunction that will expel the National Guard from Los Angeles and place limits on Trump’s ability to use them as his personal police force.  They also cover the Supreme Court precedent that prevents people with intellectual disabilities from being sentenced to death in criminal cases, explain how intellectual ability is determined, and weigh whether that limit will apply in the case of Atkins v. Virginia when it's decided by the SCOTUS.

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From the #Sisters

From Kim:  Don’t panic — yet — about the Supreme Court taking up Trump’s birthright citizenship order (Boston Globe) 
From Joyce:  Judge Breyer on Trump's Continued Federalization of the California National Guard (Substack)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to hashtag sisters-in-law with Kimberly Atkins Store, Joyce Vance, Jill Winebanks, and me, Barb McQuaid. I want to mention that hoodies

0:24.1

and t-shirts for the resistance are available to order for the holidays. Our deadline, our

0:30.2

overseers tell us, is Monday, December 15th. That's how many days, Kim? Two days. Yeah, I had to have her say it like that.

0:40.0

Two days. If you want to order sisters-in-law hoodies, t-shirts, or other merchandise,

0:44.9

you've got until Monday, December 15th, two days to make sure they arrive in time.

0:50.4

You can find all that stuff at the politicon.com slash merch store.

0:55.3

And you can find the link in our show notes.

0:57.6

Today, in our show, we'll be discussing the third, yes, third failure of the Department

1:03.7

of Justice to obtain an indictment against Letitia James, a judge's order prohibiting

1:08.9

the Trump administration from federalizing more National

1:12.3

Guard troops in California, and this week's capital punishment case that was argued at the Supreme

1:18.3

Court. But before that, sisters, I got to tell you, it's been a heavy week. We've had a terrible

1:25.7

scandal at the University of Michigan involving our football team.

1:30.0

We've had, you know, all of the Trump nonsense that goes on nonstop.

1:35.1

And I'm trying to find a moment in my day, in my week, to reflect on things that bring beauty, kindness, awe, you know, things that make me

1:47.5

just recognize the beauty in life, whether it's, you know, human kindness or nature or whatever

1:55.2

it is. You got anything to pick me up? Joyce, what about you? You know, I hear you, Barb. It's easy to get down in the dumps, and it's so important to do things that drag yourself out.

2:08.1

So let me tell y'all what I've been enjoying. I asked Bob for a wildlife camera for Christmas, and he went ahead and set it up for me a little bit early. And so we now have

2:19.3

this family text loop that shows us whatever gets captured every day. And far and away,

2:26.2

the knockout is something that's long been rumored to exist in our neighborhood, but that we've

2:32.1

never seen before, a bobcat, which suddenly

2:36.5

showed up on camera last week, much to everybody's shock and amazement. And it's just, you know,

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