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Democracy Now! 2025-03-17 Monday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

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4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for March 17, 2025; Rep. Jamie Raskin: Trump’s Attacks on Critics & Press Are Part of the “Authoritarian Playbook”; Trump Invokes Wartime Alien Enemies Act, Then Ignores Judicial Order to Turn Around Deportation Flights; Should Schumer Step Down? Calls Grow for New Dem Leadership After He Voted for Trump Spending Bill

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:19.3

He's saying he can use the military to start deporting people.

0:22.8

We think that's absolutely wrong.

0:24.6

It would be illegal.

0:25.5

The law is very clear that you need an invasion from a foreign government.

0:29.7

This is not an invasion from foreign government.

0:32.0

The U.S. deported 137 Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador after President Trump invoked the Alien

0:41.3

Enemies Act of 1798. A judge ordered the deportation flights to turn around, but the Trump

0:49.2

administration ignored the order. We'll speak with legal warrant of the ACLU, which sued Trump. But first, we look at Trump's

0:58.6

attack on the rule of law and his speech Friday at the Justice Department, where he threatened

1:04.5

to target his political enemies, naming names. We'll speak to Maryland Democratic Congress member, Jamie Raskin, a former

1:13.3

constitutional law professor. No other president in American history has stood at the Department

1:19.4

of Justice to proclaim an agenda of criminal prosecution and retaliation against his political foes.

1:28.6

Plus, we look at why some Democrats are calling on Chuck Schumer to step down at the top Democrat in the Senate

1:36.4

after he voted with Republicans to avert a government shutdown.

1:41.8

All that and more coming up.

1:47.0

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

1:53.7

Yemen's health ministry says at least 53 people were killed and dozens of others wounded over the weekend after the United States launched nearly four

2:01.6

dozen air strikes against the Houthis.

2:04.5

More than 30 civilians are reportedly among the dead, including four children and a woman killed

2:09.4

when U.S. bombs struck two houses in Yemen's northern Sada province.

2:14.4

The Trump administration said it began the attacks after the Houthis resumed drone and

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