Democracy Now! 2024-04-26 Friday
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🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for April 26, 2024; Atlanta Police Violently Arrest Emory Students & Faculty to Clear Gaza Solidarity Encampment; “People Are Going to Die”: Supreme Court Case on Idaho Abortion Ban Threatens ER Care Across U.S.; “The Supreme Court Is a Product of Minority Rule”: Author Ari Berman on America’s Undemocratic System
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm so sorry. Is there anything I can do for you right now? |
| 0:23.0 | Yes, can you call the philosophy department office and tell them I've been arrested? |
| 0:28.0 | Philo philosophy department? |
| 0:30.0 | Yes, we call the philosophy department office. |
| 0:32.0 | Riot police arrest the chair of the philosophy department at Emory University |
| 0:37.7 | and over two dozen others on campus using tear gas and tasers as a wave of student protests against |
| 0:45.2 | Israel's war in Gaza continues to spread from coast to coast. More than 500 |
| 0:51.7 | people have been arrested. |
| 0:53.2 | We'll go to Atlanta to hear from a Palestinian American grad student organizer and two arrested professors. |
| 1:00.3 | Then the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Idaho's abortion ban and emergency |
| 1:06.0 | health care. |
| 1:07.0 | The doctors are facing mandatory minimum two years in prison, loss of their license, |
| 1:12.0 | criminal prosecution. |
| 1:13.8 | The doctors can't provide the care because until they can conclude that a prosecutor |
| 1:19.2 | looking over their shoulder won't second guess that maybe it wasn't really necessary to prevent death. |
| 1:23.6 | We'll speak with the legal director of pregnancy justice and take a look at how minority |
| 1:29.6 | rule is reinforced by the current Supreme Court. |
| 1:35.0 | We have a conservative supermajority that was appointed by Republican presidents who lost the popular vote and confirmed by Republican senators representing a minority of Americans. |
| 1:46.0 | We'll speak with Ari Berman, author of the new book Minority Rule, the right-wing attack on the will of the people and the fight to |
| 1:54.8 | resist it. All that and more coming up. |
| 1:59.7 | Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now. |
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