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7: Jury Selection, Trans Rights and AG Merrick Garland

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🗓️ 13 March 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

With the Derek Chauvin trial ramping up, the #Sisters give you the inside scoop on the process of jury selection and what they’ve encountered in their own lives. Then, they lay out the laws supporting transgender rights and importance of the Equality Act. Towards the end, you can celebrate Merrick Garland’s success with them...before pondering why some stellar female candidates for other positions didn’t make it. What gives?

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0:00.0

In New York you can gaze up at the towering skyscrapers or...

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You can sunbathe on top of one.

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Before catching a California catfish off Santa Monica Pier.

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0:31.0

Welcome back to Hash Peg Sisters in LA. I'm Joyce Vance.

0:44.0

After last week's talk about grand juries, we've received a lot of great feedback

0:49.0

and more questions about the processes that keep our legal system running.

0:53.0

With the trial of Derek Chauvin starting this week in Minneapolis,

0:57.0

we'll be taking an in-depth look at how jury selection works.

1:02.0

We'll also explain what's going on in states regarding the rights of transgender people

1:08.0

and then we'll celebrate Merrick Garland's confirmation as Attorney General.

1:13.0

And as usual we'll be answering some of your questions at the end of the show.

1:18.0

Before we get started this week, we are going to start with some amazing news.

1:24.0

Kim, why don't you tell us about the dress?

1:28.0

So I don't know how amazing the news is but I decided to design my own dress for my wedding.

1:35.0

I had been going back and forth about whether to buy one or to make one

1:39.0

and I was putting a lot of pressure on myself.

1:42.0

And I had accumulated some really beautiful silk over the course of the pandemic

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