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Democracy Now! 2024-12-05 Thursday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

News, Daily News

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for December 05, 2024; Chase Strangio, First Out Trans Lawyer to Argue at Supreme Court, on Landmark Trans Healthcare Case; “Surveilled”: Ronan Farrow on the Spyware Technology the Trump Admin Could Use to Hack Your Phone

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:18.0

Today we were able to stand before this court and say, the Constitution protects trans people just like it protects everyone else.

0:25.6

It is breaking no new ground to recognize that when you are prohibited from receiving something because of your sex, it is the role of the courts to ensure that the government can satisfy a burden

0:40.6

of showing that it has a good reason for doing so.

0:43.5

The Supreme Court appears poised to uphold Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for

0:50.1

transgender youth after hearing arguments in a landmark case that could have major repercussions for transgender

0:58.0

people across the country, will air excerpts of the arguments and speak to ACLU attorney

1:05.0

Chase Strangeo, who made history becoming the first openly transgender lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court?

1:14.2

Then we continue our conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow on his new film Surveiled,

1:22.4

looking at the dangers of surveillance spyware.

1:26.2

Yes, there have been a number of documented cases of spyware technology being found on the phones

1:33.3

of Palestinian activists, politicians.

1:37.3

We talked to a Palestinian former Knesset member politician in the film, who puts forward the theory that Israel essentially

1:47.8

uses the Palestinian populations as a laboratory for this technology.

1:52.6

All that and more coming up.

1:59.0

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

2:05.2

Amnesty International has concluded Israel's committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

2:11.7

This is Amnesty researcher, Budor Hassan.

2:15.1

We have documented Israel's perpetration of three out of the five prohibited acts under the genocide convention since the 7th of October.

2:24.4

These include killing members of the group, causing them serious mental or bodily harm,

2:29.9

and inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction.

2:35.0

For example, this would include the destruction of essential infrastructure,

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