303: Fire In The Hole
#SistersInLaw
Politicon
4.9 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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In this episode of Sisters Sidebar, Jill Wine-Banks and Kimberly Atkins-Stor answer your questions on everything from the Secretary of Defense’s firing powers to conservatorships, and more. They discuss Pete Hegseth’s removal of the Secretary of the Navy, how the Posse Comitatus Act applies to JAG attorneys prosecuting civilian cases, whether substituting the United States as defendant in the E. Jean Carroll case could reopen presidential immunity, if the Roberts’ Court would have upheld the Voting Rights Act in 1965, using a dictionary definition of 86 to defeat Jim Comey’s indictment, and the process for initiating conservatorships.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of Sisters Sidebar, our sister podcast to hashtag Sisters in Law. |
| 0:10.2 | And it's Kimberly Atkins store and me, Joel Weinbanks, today. |
| 0:14.5 | And I want to welcome you to Sister Sidebar to keep up with us. |
| 0:19.3 | If you have a question for us, please email us at |
| 0:22.4 | Sistersinlaw at politicon.com or tag us on social media using hashtag Sisters in Law. But don't |
| 0:31.1 | just type your questions. We love hearing your voice asking the question and you can submit |
| 0:37.1 | a voice question and then we will play |
| 0:40.2 | it on air. You'll hear your own voice asking the question. So do that. Email us a voice memo |
| 0:46.8 | using any of the notes applications and we might play your question on the next episode. Let's get |
| 0:53.6 | started. So our first question is for you, Jill, |
| 0:57.9 | and it comes from Kate. Hello, hashtag sisters-in-law, and thank you all for all you do. |
| 1:04.5 | This is Kate, an American in Canada with a question for Jill Weinbanks. There's reporting that |
| 1:10.4 | Secretary of War Crimes, Hegsteth, |
| 1:12.7 | fired the Secretary of the Navy. |
| 1:15.1 | And I'm unclear how that could be true. |
| 1:17.2 | Wouldn't it have to be that the President would fire the Secretary of the Navy? |
| 1:23.6 | Or what am I missing? |
| 1:25.2 | Thank you very much for straightening that out. |
| 1:27.5 | I appreciate you and all the sisters. |
| 1:30.3 | Thank you for that question, Kate. |
| 1:32.1 | As a former Pentagon employee, I was really interested in this and thought about it. |
| 1:38.3 | But it's true that the Secretary of the Navy is appointed by the President and is confirmed by the Senate, |
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