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Democracy Now! 2023-08-25 Friday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

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4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for August 25, 2023; Inmate P01135809: Trump Surrenders to Jail in Georgia, Booked on 13 Felony Counts; Are “Mugshots” Unethical? How Jailhouse Photos Undermine Defendants & Reinforce Systemic Bias; “Shameful”: Reelected Tenn. State Rep. Justin Jones on GOP Silencing of Critics on Gun Control

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:18.6

The arrest and booking of Donald Trump was a sign, a powerful sign that the rule of

0:26.8

law still holds. That accountability still is in the system and that

0:33.3

chickens will come home to roost. President Trump surrendered at the notorious

0:37.6

Fulton County jail Thursday night. He was booked on 13 felony charges for

0:42.6

attempting to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. Once inside the jail,

0:47.8

Trump became the first former president to ever have his mug shot taken. We'll

0:52.8

get the latest from Atlanta. Then as Trump begins fundraising off his mug

0:57.6

shot, we'll look at a growing movement pushing for mug shots to stop being

1:01.7

released publicly. Plus we go to Tennessee where Republican lawmakers attempted

1:06.9

to ban the public from bringing signs into the capital as protests continue

1:11.6

over the refusal by Republican lawmakers to enact new gun control and the

1:17.0

wake of the Covenant School shooting in Nashville. We'll speak to Democratic

1:21.1

lawmaker Justin Jones who is expelled earlier this year than reelected by

1:26.4

voters for protesting gun violence at the Capitol. The rotunda has been shut

1:32.1

down for the most part to the public under the orders of Speaker Cameron

1:36.0

Sexton. This is our special session that was supposed to be around gun

1:39.5

violence, but what we see is a party more concerned with stifling and stopping

1:45.2

free speech. All that and more coming up.

1:54.0

Welcome to Democracy Now Democracy Now dot org the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy

1:58.8

Goodman, former president Donald Trump surrendered at Atlanta's notorious

2:03.0

Fulton County jail Thursday night where he was arrested and booked on 13 felony

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