Just The Facts with Jill Wine-Banks
Just The Facts with Jill Wine-Banks
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“Just The Facts with Jill Wine-Banks” is a podcast hosted by the renowned lawyer and former Watergate prosecutor, Jill Wine-Banks. In each episode, Wine-Banks brings her decades of legal experience and sharp analytical skills to bear on current political and legal issues, offering viewers clear, concise explanations of complex topics.
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The podcast focuses on themes of legal analysis, political commentary, and social justice, with episodes exploring the complexities of discrimination laws, historical impacts of legislation, judicial reform, and community engagement, exemplified by discussions with guests like Elie Mystal on legal injustices and Jim Robenalt on the JFK assassination.
Four weeks from Election Day, Jill Wine-Banks sits down with Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar, chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, to ask the question keeping so many of us up at night: can the Trump administration interfere with our elections?
Aguilar’s answer: elections belong to the states, and secretaries of state have been preparing since the last cycle. He explains how a group of Republican secretaries of state helped convince the Supreme Court to block the Postal Service’s mail-ballot rule, and why Nevada won’t run its voter rolls through the federal SAVE database despite pressure from the state’s Republican governor.
Democratic Association of Secretaries of State:
The Nevada Independent: 185 voters flagged by the Trump administration are likely citizens, state says
Las Vegas Review-Journal: DOJ tells Nevada election chief he is under investigation
SCOTUSblog: Supreme Court denies the administration’s request to implement parts of the USPS mail-in voting rule
Defending Our Vote: the ACLU’s poll monitor and election protection program:
https://www.aclu.org/campaigns-initiatives/election-safeguarding
Jill Wine-Banks:
CHAPTERS
0:00 Meet Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar
2:45 “They’re not going to take control of our elections”
3:53 Working with Republican secretaries of state
4:46 The Supreme Court, the Postal Service and mail ballots
6:47 Why Nevada won’t use the federal SAVE database
8:30 16,000 “noncitizen voters” … down to zero
11:20 Seven grand jury subpoenas and a DOJ investigation
12:11 Jill: Are the Watergate prosecutors next?
13:06 Should secretaries of state be partisan?
14:32 The 2026 races and the insurance policy for 2028
16:35 500 bills to restrict voting: how you can help
17:52 Become a poll worker or poll observer
18:48 Federal monitors at the polls?
20:41 Thank you, Secretary Aguilar
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