Democracy Now! 2025-04-02 Wednesday
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🗓️ 2 April 2025
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Headlines for April 02, 2025; Elon Musk Fails in Attempt to Buy Wisconsin Supreme Court as Judge Susan Crawford Beats Brad Schimel; A “Coup” at Columbia? Former Law Prof. Katherine Franke on School’s Capitulation to Trump; Trump Sends Hundreds of Immigrants to Brutal Salvadoran Prison as Mass Deportations Expand
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:20.2 | And Wisconsin stood up and said loudly that justice does not have a price. |
| 0:26.9 | Our courts are not for sale. |
| 0:29.2 | Judge Susan Crawford wins a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, defeating her Elon Musk-backed opponent, Musk spent over $25 million |
| 0:41.2 | on the most expensive judicial race in U.S. history. |
| 0:45.9 | We'll go to Wisconsin for the latest. |
| 0:48.0 | Then Trump's escalating war on universities as he moves to cut more than $9 billion in federal funding to Harvard |
| 0:58.0 | and Princeton. |
| 0:59.2 | We'll look at the turmoil at Columbia University, which capitulated to demands from the |
| 1:05.8 | Trump administration. |
| 1:07.2 | We'll speak to former Columbia law professor, Catherine Frankie. |
| 1:10.3 | A lot of people have been calling me and saying, what the heck? |
| 1:13.6 | What's going on at Columbia? |
| 1:14.6 | We thought it was bad, but now it's worse. |
| 1:16.6 | You've got another president? |
| 1:18.6 | What's up with that? |
| 1:19.6 | Well, I think it's fair to say that what we've seen is a coup. |
| 1:22.6 | We've seen the trustees, the board of trustees, go rogue and put in one of their own people |
| 1:30.8 | as the acting president in violation of the actual statutes of the university. |
| 1:37.4 | Plus, Trump's immigration crackdown is coming under increased criticism. |
| 1:42.6 | After the administration admits it mistakenly flew, |
| 1:47.0 | a Salvador and father living with his family in Maryland with protected status to a mega |
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