Democracy Now! 2026-03-31 Tuesday
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for March 31, 2026; “Deeply Illegal, Unconstitutional”: Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Ban Reaches Supreme Court; U.S. Pressure on Cuba Continues Despite Arrival of Russian Oil Tanker; The AI War on Iran: Project Maven, a Secretive Palantir-Run System, Helps Pentagon Pick Bomb Targets
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:18.0 | We're suing the Trump administration over its efforts to end birthright citizenship. |
| 0:23.2 | The vital principle that every child born in this country is a U.S. citizen, regardless |
| 0:27.7 | of who their parents may be. |
| 0:29.4 | This is more than a legal case. |
| 0:31.3 | This is a fight for what it means to be American, and we are fighting to win. |
| 0:35.9 | In one of the biggest cases of the year, |
| 0:38.3 | the Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday |
| 0:41.3 | on the constitutionality of President Trump's |
| 0:44.3 | moved and birthright citizenship. |
| 0:47.3 | We'll speak to the ACOU, which sued to block |
| 0:51.3 | Trump's executive order. Then to Cuba, in a surprise move, the Trump administration |
| 0:58.0 | has allowed a Russian oil tanker to reach Cuba |
| 1:02.0 | despite a three-month-long U.S. blockade |
| 1:06.0 | that plunge Cuba into a crisis. |
| 1:09.0 | President Trump claims there's been no change in policy. |
| 1:13.6 | If a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now, I have no problem with it. |
| 1:19.6 | It's not going to have an impact. Cuba's finished. They have a bad regime. They have very bad and corrupt leadership. |
| 1:26.6 | And whether or not they get a vote of oil, it's not going to matter. |
| 1:30.3 | We'll get a report from independent journalist Liz Oliva Hernandez in Havana |
| 1:35.3 | and talk to Professor William Leogrand, co-author of Back Channel to Cuba, |
| 1:41.3 | the hidden history of negotiations between Washington and Havana. |
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