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🗓️ 21 April 2025
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0:00.0 | April 20, 2025. |
0:09.0 | Yesterday, on the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, |
0:17.0 | Americans across the country protested against President Donald J. Trump, his billionaire |
0:23.6 | sidekick, Elon Musk, and the administration in general. The decentralized 50-51 movement, |
0:32.8 | which stands for 50 protests in 50 states on one day, was one of the organizers of the protests, |
0:40.6 | planning more than 700 events. |
0:43.4 | Spokesperson Hunter Dunn described 50-51 as a pro-democracy, pro-constitution, |
0:50.9 | anti-executive overreach, non-violent grassroots movement. Notably, protests have spread to |
0:57.9 | small towns all around the country, including towns in Republican-dominated areas. One of the |
1:04.8 | signs in Miami read, I'm here fighting for your due process. A right, the Trump administration has abandoned with its |
1:12.7 | rendition of men to Seacot, a notorious terrorist prison in El Salvador. Today, Senator Chris Van |
1:20.3 | Holland, a Democrat of Maryland, appeared on a number of news programs explaining that his |
1:25.7 | trip to El Salvador to make contact with his |
1:28.4 | constituent Kilmara Breggo Garcia, whom the administration said it's sent to Seacott through |
1:33.9 | administrative error, was about defending the rule of law. I am not defending the man. I'm defending |
1:42.5 | the rights of this man to due process, Van Hollen told |
1:46.9 | Jonathan Carl of ABC News. And the Trump administration has admitted in court that he was wrongfully |
1:53.5 | detained and wrongfully deported. My mission and my purpose is to make sure that we uphold the rule of |
2:00.8 | law, because if we take it |
2:02.5 | away from him, we jeopardize it for everybody else. The right to do process is central to the |
2:09.6 | rule of law in the United States, and the Trump administration has ignored it since at least |
2:14.3 | March 15th, when it spirited more than 250 men from the U.S. to Seacott. |
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