291: More Big Buts
#SistersInLaw
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
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In this episode of #SistersInLaw Sidebar, Jill Wine-Banks and Joyce Vance answer your questions on everything from Judge Cannon’s continued defenses of Trump, Epstein, war, and more. Together, they discuss the prospect that Judge Cannon will be disbarred for protecting Trump, if there is a way to access the Jack Smith report that she sealed, whether executives and other employees can be considered legally responsible for corporate crimes, how the Epstein files are stored and managed, the ability of the UN and international law to prosecute US citizens for war crimes, and what determined the structure of the Constitution.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of Sisters Sidebar with Jill Wine Banks and me Joyce fans. |
| 0:09.0 | If you've got questions for us, email them to us at Sisters-in-Law at Politicon.com, |
| 0:15.0 | or you can tag us on social media using hashtag Sisters-in-Law. |
| 0:20.0 | But don't just type your questions. Your voices are |
| 0:23.4 | important to us and we want to be able to hear them too. So you can email us a voice memo using |
| 0:29.2 | one of your notes apps and we might play it on the show. Before we get started, we're delighted |
| 0:35.1 | to share that we have some live shows coming up in the near future. |
| 0:38.7 | We will be in Denver, Colorado at the Servantes masterpiece on April 23rd. |
| 0:44.7 | Then we head to Atlanta, Georgia for a show at the Buckhead Theater on May 3rd. |
| 0:49.6 | You can get tickets at Politicon.com slash tour. |
| 0:53.6 | We cannot wait to see you there. Okay, Jill, you ready to get |
| 0:57.3 | started? I am ready. Well, Jill, I think there's a question on voice for you. Michelle here, |
| 1:05.8 | calling in from Northern California. There's an awful lot of analysis and discussion these |
| 1:10.6 | days regarding the |
| 1:11.8 | Constitution, specifically Articles 1 and 2, the Fourth Amendment, and lately the War Powers Act. |
| 1:19.6 | Does the chronological order of the two articles afford them different levels of power and |
| 1:25.0 | importance? Piscence, you know, power of the purse. |
| 1:29.0 | Great question, Michelle. The order of the articles in the Constitution was actually a deliberate |
| 1:37.2 | choice by our founding fathers. And so they picked the legislature as the most important part of the government. |
| 1:46.3 | Articles 1, 2, and 3 set up how our government is run, the legislative branch, the executive |
| 1:51.7 | branch, and the judicial branch. |
| 1:54.0 | And by picking the legislative, and by the way, that Article 1 is also the longest of the |
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