Democracy Now! 2023-08-16 Wednesday
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🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for August 16, 2023; Kansas to Probe Police Raid on Local Newspaper; Co-Publisher Dies from Stress Day After Raid; Pressure Grows on Clarence Thomas to Resign as ProPublica Exposes More Undisclosed Lavish Trips, Gifts; “Watershed Moment”: Montana Rules Youth Have Constitutional Right to Healthy Climate
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is democracy now. |
| 0:17.9 | All of this has a really chilling effect on journalists because this threatens our |
| 0:22.9 | abilities to do our job to hold powerful people accountable because it's a way for authorities |
| 0:28.6 | to look for confidential sources. |
| 0:31.1 | News organizations and press freedom groups are denouncing last week's police raid of |
| 0:35.9 | a family-owned newspaper in Kansas, the Marion County record. |
| 0:39.8 | The papers 98-year-old co-publisher died a day after officers also searched her home. |
| 0:46.8 | The Kansas Bureau of Investigations probing the police raid will go to Kansas for the |
| 0:50.9 | latest. |
| 0:51.9 | Plus Democratic lawmakers are renewing calls for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas |
| 0:56.7 | to resign after a pro-publica published another bombshell investigation showing that a group |
| 1:03.6 | of conservative billionaires have showered Thomas with 38 luxury vacations, 26 private |
| 1:09.6 | jet flights, 12 VIP passes to sporting events, all worth millions. |
| 1:15.4 | Then to Montana, where judges ruled in favor of a group of young people who sued the state |
| 1:20.0 | in a landmark climate change case. |
| 1:23.5 | This ruling is just so important in Montana and for outside and supporters. |
| 1:32.3 | This is such a huge issue and for the judge to say that Montana is significantly contributing |
| 1:40.9 | to global climate change, just kind of least with any of this feeling that our actions |
| 1:46.8 | do matter. |
| 1:48.2 | We will speak with one of the youth plaintiffs and the head of our children's trust, which |
| 1:52.6 | has been involved in a string of groundbreaking climate lawsuits, all that in more coming |
| 1:57.3 | up. |
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