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🗓️ 25 March 2025
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0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. |
0:05.0 | And I'm Amna Nawaz. On the news hour tonight, the balance of power comes into stark focus |
0:10.0 | as President Trump calls for a federal judge to be disbarred and the Supreme Court hears a critical redistricting case. |
0:18.0 | Top Trump officials appear to accidentally share Yemen war plans via a commercial |
0:22.9 | messaging app with Atlantic editor and Washington Week moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, who joins us with |
0:28.9 | details. And farmers across the country feel the impact of federal funding cuts. It's heartbreaking |
0:35.8 | to tell a farmer who is counting on it, and the season |
0:39.4 | doesn't wait, and the climate doesn't wait. |
1:06.4 | Welcome to the news hour. In a U.S. Appeals Court today, the Trump administration challenged a federal judge's decision to stop the deportations of alleged gang members using a rare wartime authority. The three-judge panel has yet to rule, but there was one apparent point of consensus among two of the judges, agreeing the judiciary does have the authority to review President Trump's actions. |
1:17.6 | It's the latest chapter in the ongoing showdown between President Trump and the judiciary. |
1:22.6 | Our White House correspondent Laura Barone Lopez joins us now with the latest. |
1:25.9 | So, Laura, this was a nearly two-hour-long hour-long hearing in this DC appeals court on the Trump administration's use of this century's old Alien Enemies Act. What stood out to you? |
1:35.5 | So this three judge panel includes judges appointed by President George W. Bush, Barack Obama, as well as Donald Trump. And there was one big point of agreement among two of the |
1:45.2 | judges that spoke the most during the arguments. I'm talking about Judge Justin Walker, who was an appointee |
1:50.4 | of President Trump and an Obama appointee, Patricia Millett. And they were both skeptical of the Trump |
1:56.4 | administration's arguments that essentially the president's actions are beyond judicial review. |
2:02.5 | So they both said they believe that the judiciary can review this. |
2:05.9 | Now Judge Justin Walker focused his questions on whether or not D.C. was the right venue, |
2:11.7 | saying maybe this should, this lawsuit should be brought somewhere else. |
2:15.3 | Now, Judge Patricia Millett focused her questioning on due process. |
2:19.8 | And she basically said that there was no record that the people that were deported under |
2:25.6 | the alien enemies were necessarily Trend de Aragua or if they were maybe victims of |
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