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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.This post was originally published on Radio Free.
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The trailblazing human rights attorney Peter Weiss died November 3 at the age of 99. Weiss served on the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights for nearly five decades, where he worked to end South African apartheid and the Vietnam War, fought for nuclear disarmament and sought justice for victims of the U.S.-backed Contras in 1980s Nicaragua. He pioneered using the 1789 Alien Tort Statute in human rights cases. He also represented the family of U.S. journalist and human rights activist Charles Horman in a case against Henry Kissinger and others, after Horman was disappeared and killed in Chile soon after the U.S.-backed 1973 coup.
“He never ceased to push for a more just system, a more equitable system, along with his extraordinary wife Cora Weiss,” says Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst at the National Security Archive. “There’s not enough words to describe how important Peter was to the progressive movement, to human rights, over these last decades.”
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The U.S. is continuing to blow up boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific despite growing international condemnation, while the Trump administration reportedly considers launching airstrikes on Venezuela or even assassinating President Nicolás Maduro.
“We are committing wanton criminal acts of assassination in the Caribbean [against] innocent people who haven’t been found guilty of anything, and kind of setting the stage for an attack on Caracas itself in an attempt to take out its leader,” says Peter Kornbluh, a senior analyst at the National Security Archive.
Kornbluh also discusses the legacy of the Church Committee 50 years ago, which investigated abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies, including coups and assassinations abroad.
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in a case challenging President Donald Trump’s tariffs, with plaintiffs arguing that his unilateral levies on imported goods violate the Constitution, which grants Congress the power to impose taxes and regulate foreign commerce. The Trump administration has justified his unprecedented use of tariffs under a 1977 law known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, but several justices seemed highly skeptical of that argument, potentially putting President Trump’s signature economic policy at risk.
“There is no genuine emergency. There is no war that is the precipitating basis for invoking IEEPA. And even if it were, it would not allow the imposition of tariffs,” says legal expert Lisa Graves, founder of True North Research and co-host of the podcast Legal AF.
Graves also discusses her new book, Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights.
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in a case challenging President Donald Trump’s tariffs, with plaintiffs arguing that his unilateral levies on imported goods violate the Constitution, which grants Congress the power to impose taxes and regulate foreign commerce. The Trump administration has justified his unprecedented use of tariffs under a 1977 law known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, but several justices seemed highly skeptical of that argument, potentially putting President Trump’s signature economic policy at risk.
“There is no genuine emergency. There is no war that is the precipitating basis for invoking IEEPA. And even if it were, it would not allow the imposition of tariffs,” says legal expert Lisa Graves, founder of True North Research and co-host of the podcast Legal AF.
Graves also discusses her new book, Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights.
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In an unsigned order on Thursday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to require U.S. passports to list travelers’ sex assigned at birth, another blow to the rights of transgender, nonbinary and intersex people, who had been able to select sex markers aligning with their gender identity or to use a gender-neutral X. Thursday’s order is an interim ruling while the passport case makes its way through lower courts.
“The harm and the targeting of this policy towards intersex, nonbinary and trans people is terrifying. It makes it very scary to travel, to trust that you’ll be able to get through security, that you’ll be able to get on your flight,” says Arli Christian, senior policy counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union.
We also get reaction to the order from actress and activist Laverne Cox, who says trans people will persevere despite the discriminatory policy. “No matter what they say about our ID documents, we are still who we are, and we will find a way to be ourselves no matter what,” she says.
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Democracy Now! Friday, November 7, 2025
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- Sudan's Rapid Support Forces Agree to Humanitarian Ceasefire
- "The World's Largest Mass Grave": Palestinians Say 10,000 Bodies Are Buried Under Gaza's Rubble
- Israel Launches Wave of Airstrikes on Southern Lebanon
- GOP Senators Block Resolution to Rein In Trump's Military Actions Against Venezuela
- Senate GOP Continues Push to End Health Insurance Subsidies as Government Shutdown Enters 38th Day
- Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration to Fully Fund November SNAP Payments
- U.S. Airlines Cancel Thousands of Flights as Shutdown Takes Toll on Air Traffic Controllers
- Death Toll in Crash of UPS Cargo Plane Rises to 13
- Tesla Shareholders Approve Pay Package That Could Make Elon Musk a Trillionaire
- Federal Judge Blasts Border Patrol Chief for Lying About Violence at Chicago-Area Protests
- Jury Acquits Man Who Threw Sandwich to Protest Trump's Militarized Takeover of D.C.
- SCOTUS Allows Trump Administration to Restrict Gender Identity Markers on Passports
- Typhoon Batters Vietnam After Carving Path of Destruction Through Philippines
- Documents Reveal Exxon Funded Climate Denial Campaign Across Latin America
- As COP30 Opens, Brazil's Lula Warns Window of Opportunity to Act on Climate Is Rapidly Closing
- Nancy Pelosi, Who Served as First-Ever Female House Speaker, to Retire from Congress in 2027
- NYC Mayor-Elect Mamdani Outlines Plan to Tax the Rich and Corporations to Fund Affordability
- Pioneering Human Rights Attorney Peter Weiss Dies at 99
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Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast – HD
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