SUPREME COURT

  • Democracy Now! June 10, 2003

    Attn. Gen. John Ashcroft Bans Gay Pride from the Justice Department; President Bush Refuses to Declare June Gay Pride month, Proclaiming June Home-Owner s Month; The Battle for the Courts: Three Supreme Court Justices May Resign, and Hearings for Federal Judge Nominee William Pryor Begin Tomorrow |8:00-8:01 Billboard 8:01-8:06 Headlines 8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break…

  • Democracy Now! June 10, 2003

    Hour 1: Attn. Gen. John Ashcroft Bans Gay Pride from the Justice Department; President Bush Refuses to Declare June Gay Pride month, Proclaiming June Home-Owner s Month; The Battle for the Courts: Three Supreme Court Justices May Resign, and Hearings for Federal Judge Nominee William Pryor Begin Tomorrow Hour 2: On both sides of the…

  • Democracy Now! May 30, 2003

    Exclusive: Democracy Now! Broadcasts for the First Time a Recording of a Police Sergeant Interrogating a Man Moments After Police Shoot him 5 Times, Paralyzing and Blinding Him. Farmworker Oliverio Martinez wails for help, says he is choking and dying, and pleads with the sergeant to stop. This week, the Supreme Court ruled that his…

  • Democracy Now! December 3, 2002

    Israeli military attacks United Nations workers and buildings: soldiers shoot dead a British UN worker, detain Israeli and Palestinian workers, and bomb a World Food Program warehouse; Supreme Court to decide whether affirmative action and gay sex are legal; Manhattan DA set to determine the fate of the Central Park Jogger rape case this week:…

  • Democracy Now! April 2, 2003

    Yesterday the Supreme Court heard opening arguments in two landmark cases that may decide the future of affirmative action: We’ll have our own debate today between Attorney Kirk Kolbo, who argued against affirmative action before the high court, and Miranda Massie a lead attorney for the University of Michigan students who backs the preservation of…

  • Democracy Now! April 1, 2003

    Hour 1: Thousands of students protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court calling to preserve affirmative action; Democrats accuse House Republicans of slashing $15 billion in veterans benefits in favor of tax cuts for the rich: We look at the new House budget; Fragging returns to the frontlines: A U.S. Army Sgt. kills two fellow soldiers…

  • Democracy Now! April 1, 2003

    Thousands of students protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court calling to preserve affirmative action; Democrats accuse House Republicans of slashing $15 billion in veterans benefits in favor of tax cuts for the rich: We look at the new House budget; Fragging returns to the frontlines: A U.S. Army Sgt. kills two fellow soldiers in grenade…

  • Democracy Now! April 2, 2003

    Hour 1: “Until this administration it had been possible to believe that by upholding the policies of my president I was also upholding the interests of the American people and the world. I believe it no longer:” Former U.S. diplomat John Brady Kiesling on why he resigned from the State Department; Civilian casualties mount in…

  • Democracy Now! March 13, 2003

    Hour 1: Prime Minister Tony Blair says Britain will deploy troops with or without UN backing: we talk to a Conservative Party MP who opposes war and former Labour Party Chair Tony Benn; Uniting For Peace : can the UN General Assembly trump the Security Council by invoking a little-known resolution, and stop the war?;…

  • Democracy Now! March 11, 2003

    U.S. chains & shackles naked detainees to the ceiling in Afghanistan: Is the U.S. using torture? ; Bush delays plans for Israeli-Palestinian peace plan: Israeli forces kill over 60 Palestinians since Feb. 15; Former FBI chief calls for the Supreme Court to halt the execution of Delma Banks in Texas: We talk to Banks mother…