Fire In The Hole
5/13/202625 min
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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First 90 secondsJill Wine-Banks· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Welcome to this episode of Sisters Sidebar, our sister podcast to #SistersInLaw. And it's Kimberly Atkins Stohr and me, Jill Wine-Banks today. And I want to welcome you to Sisters Sidebar. To keep up with us, if you have a question for us, please email us at sistersinlaw@politicon.com or tag us on social media using #SistersInLaw. But don't just type your questions. We love hearing your voice asking the question, and you can submit a voice question, and then we will play it on air. You'll hear your own voice asking the question. So do that. Email us a voice memo using any of the notes applications, and we might play your question on the next episode. Let's get started.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr· Host0:54
So our first question, uh, is for you, Jill, and it comes from Kate.
Speaker 30:59
Hello, #SistersInLaw, and thank you all for all you do. This is Kate, an American in Canada, with a question for Jill Wine-Banks. There's reporting that Secretary of War Crimes Hegseth fired the Secretary of the Navy, and I'm unclear how that could be true. Wouldn't it have to be that the President would fire the Secretary of the Navy, or what am I missing? Thank you very much for straightening that out. I appreciate you and all the sisters.