Trump’s Revenge
5/30/20261 hr 22 min
Kimberly Atkins Stohr hosts #SistersInLaw to discuss the Trump administration's revenge prosecution of E. Jean Carroll, examining the motivations behind the investigation, the allegations against her, and the role of financial backers in her civil suit against the President. Then, they expose the DOJ's prosecutorial misconduct in the Broadview Six case, review the vindictive prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and highlight the dangers of politicizing DOJ appointments. They also explain the recent SCOTUS decision overturning the murder conviction of Terry Pitchford due to racial discrimination in the jury selection process, and the implications of Justice Kavanaugh’s opinion on futu...
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First 90 secondsKimberly Atkins Stohr· Host0:00
[ on-hold music] Welcome back to hashtag Sisters-in-Law with Jill Wine-Banks, Barb McQuade, Joyce Vance, and me, Kimberly Atkins Stohr. It was a very jam-packed week this week, and most of it, most of the news involved the DOJ. So today we're gonna break down, uh, the E. Jean Carroll possible criminal investigation into her or maybe not. We'll figure all that out. Then we'll go on to talk about even more DOJ mishaps. And then finally, we will wrap it up by talking about a Supreme Court case where the majority actually found that race matters and that government actors can't just give pretextual reasons for doing racist stuff. Yeah, the Supreme Court still does that every now and again. But before we dive into all of these really big topics this week, you know, I, I've been thinking a lot about the things that we need, that we rely on to, uh, give us silly diversions in this time of endless bad news, and I'm just wondering what each of you guys do. Uh, for example, for me, um, mine, and I've spoken about this before, I like some reality television shows. But there was one show that I didn't even watch. It's been on TV for a long time, and I didn't