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Democracy Now! 2025-11-07 Friday

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now!

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4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for November 07, 2025; “The Fight Is Not Over”: LGBTQ Advocates Challenge Supreme Court’s Anti-Trans Passport Ruling; “Without Precedent”: Lisa Graves on the Supreme Court, Tariffs, Voting Rights & Legacy of John Roberts; Is the U.S. Planning to Assassinate Maduro? Peter Kornbluh on “Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy”; Remembering Peter Weiss: Legendary Human Rights Lawyer Dies at 99

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:18.2

What I think it's really important for me to remember and for all my trans siblings out there to remember is that the government cannot tell us who we are.

0:27.6

And they will never be the arbiter of our identities.

0:31.8

As the Supreme Court rules, the Trump administration can begin enforcing a passport policy that discriminates against

0:40.0

transgender and binary people. We'll get response from the pioneering trans actress and

0:46.3

activist Laverne Cox, as well as the ACLU. Then we look at the Supreme Court battle over Trump's

0:54.0

tariffs policy.

0:55.2

Our message today is simple.

0:58.4

The Constitution, our framers, 238 years of American history, all say only Congress has the power to impose tariffs on the American people.

1:14.5

And tariffs are nothing but taxes on the American people paid by Americans. This case is not about the president. It's about the presidency.

1:21.8

We'll speak to Lisa Graves, author of the new book, Without Precedent, how Chief Justice Roberts and his accomplices rewrote the Constitution and dismantled our rights.

1:34.2

And as the U.S. blows up yet another boat in the Caribbean,

1:37.6

we'll look at reports the U.S. is considering assassinating

1:42.1

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

1:45.0

We'll speak to the National Security Archives Peter Cornblum about what he calls Trump's

1:50.4

gunboat diplomacy.

1:52.6

All that and more coming up.

1:58.5

Welcome to Democracy Now.

2:00.5

Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

2:04.5

In Sudan, the paramilitary rapid support forces said Thursday they've agreed to a U.S.-backed ceasefire proposal to end more than two years of a devastating war with the Sudanese military.

2:14.9

The truce was brokered by a U.S.-led group of mediators, known as

2:20.1

the Quad, made up of negotiators from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

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