Golden Idol
5/20/202624 min
In this episode of Sisters Sidebar, Barb McQuade and Jill Wine-Banks answer your questions on everything from impeaching Trump, Vance, and the cabinet all at once to AI-generated political ads, and more. They discuss whether Article II, Section 4 allows mass removal of the entire executive branch, Congress’s power to set mandatory minimum sentences, the legality of Trump’s picture on U.S. passports, quarantine powers during outbreaks like the Hantavirus, the rights of retired military officers like Pete Hegseth to freely talk on politics, and the legality of Spencer Pratt’s AI ad using the likeness of his politi...
Clips
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsJill Wine-Banks· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Welcome to this episode of Sisters Sidebar with Jill Wine-Banks and me, Barb McQuade. 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 them, we wanna hear your voices. So you can record them using a voice memo, email them to us, and we might include it in our next show. So let's get started. Jill, our first question comes to us from Donna in North Carolina.
Barb McQuade· Host0:37
Many people are talking about impeaching the president using the 25th Amendment, but that is only for one person at a time, isn't it? Would Article Two, Section 4 be a better way to take care of the president and his cabinet? What are your thoughts?
Jill Wine-Banks· Host0:51
What an interesting question. You are not the only person who has asked about whether Article Two of the Constitution, Section 4, allows for the overall removal of the president, the vice president, and the cabinet, all in one fell swoop. The answer is no. That's sort of a misreading. It does allow for each of them to be impeached and removed, but each has to be subject to articles of impeachment individually directed at them. Now, could they be combined in one document? They could. You could say, "We need to impeach all these people, and