The Slush Fund Starts To Melt
6/13/20261 hr 15 min
Jill Wine-Banks hosts #SistersInLaw to discuss the latest developments concerning the slush fund for J6 defendants and others, covering court rulings by Judges Leon and Brinkema that halted it and skepticism about the administration’s claims that it was dead. Then, they examine Ken Paxton’s retaliatory lawsuit against the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue and the partisan congressional hearing that sought to question its CEO. They also analyze Trump’s push to have Congress pass a resolution expunging his two impeachments from the record, explaining why his plan won’t work and how it weakens existing avenues for government accountabi...
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Thank you. Welcome back to Hashtag Sisters-in-Law with Joyce Vance, Kimberly Atkins-Store, and me, Jill Wine-Banks. Barbara Quaid will be back next week. We miss her now, but she will be back next week. In today's show, we are covering some really important topics. We're going to be talking about the National Reparation Fund for White Nationalists. Okay. We are also going to talk about, well, it's the slush fund, whatever you want to call it, but that's what it is. Let's face it. ActBlue is another topic, and they're in court and in Congress. And let's talk about that because they are the largest fundraising arm for the Democratic Party. And then let's not forget that Trump wants to erase history. He wants his impeachment to be nullified, voided, et cetera. And that's really important too. But before we get to those serious topics, I wanna ask my sisters-in-law. I just came back from a trip to Cleveland, a surprising city, where I was able to go behind the scenes at the zoo and at the Cleveland Clinic and at the Cleveland Museum of Art, but also at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And I know you, oh gosh, it was so much fun. We even walked through the construction of their new addition, which is