And if we win big in california, we can win amy as Hillary Clinton looks to a november showdown against donald trump, Bernie Sanders vows to keep fighting for the democratic nomination. Will sanders win today in West Virginia . We will speak to former president ial candidate ralph nader on the democratic race, obstacles facing Third Party Candidates, breaking through power and the rise of trump. , he gets away with absurdities. Yes community that with tank any other political candidate because he is so outrageous in the press thinks he is outrageous, so they give him a pass. It is amazing. Amy all of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Justice Department has sued North Carolina over its antitransgender law. The law bars transgender people from using the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity. It also invalidates local ordinances aimed at protecting lgbt people from discrimination. Attorney gene
The former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, remains on track to clinch the democratic nomination. And france goes on strike over labor reforms proposals. Major travel disruptions are expected throughout the country today. After weeks of violent protests, and have Police Demonstrations were banned antiPolice Demonstrations were banned earlier today. Our top story this hour, demonstrators are preparing to take to the streets in cities across venezuela today, the first test of the state of emergency that was decreed by president Nicolas Maduro on monday. Yesterday lawmakers moved to toect that announcement predict the imminent demise of venezuela possible opposition. Here is our correspondent. Byhes being undermined lawmakers who rejected his state of emergency decree. Nicolas maduro faces a battle in venezuela. Earlier, the Opposition Leader called on his country to defy the declaration while urging the army to choose between the constitution and the president. This is absolutely inv
Hillary clinton dealing with a scandal just one after making history by accepting the democratic nomination for the president of the United States. The new nominee barely hitting the campaign trail when news of the controversy broke. Up apparently the cling campaign apparently linked to russia. What we know about the breach and what the candidates are saying. Certainly new unwanted drama for Hillary Clinton. The Campaign Says this is a breach of a data program it shares with other organizations. It is believed to be a part of a be a part of a series of digital attacks against multiple democratic groups. The fbi and Justice Department are investigating how this happened and who is responsible. . Can Computer System looking to undermine the clinton and analytics data program maintained by the dnc and used by our campaign at a number of other entities was accessed as a part of the dnc hack. While it is unclear what was access, political experts political experts say this type of intrusion
Jurors because of their race. Foster was convicted of killing a 79yearold white woman by an all white jury. Well hear argument first this morning in case 148349, foster versus chapman. Mr. Bright. Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court. The prosecutors in this case came to court on the day of jury selection determined to strike all the black prospective jurors. Maybe you could address first the question we raised on friday with respect to which court certiorari i should be directed to . Yes, your honor, we filed this originally certiori to the Supreme Court of georgia. Of course this court in sirius versus upton issued certiori in 2010 of the georgia Supreme Court in a similar situation. It appears to us from looking at this over the weekend that r. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company versus durham county, which the court has cited in 1986, the court said unless there was positive assurance that the decision was not a decision on the merits, then the writ went to the spate Supreme Court
Were nineat there questions that the republican candidates should be prepared to address. One of them was, gilmore and ataki, really . They also said we needed to be test . Pass the kishka i did not know what that was. I looked it up. The definition is [laughter] beef, or fowl intestine, stuffed into a mixture, as a onions, and seasonings, and rested. And i thought, that is the Republican Campaign for the nomination. Thats right. Toim glad to have a chance spend some time. Im going to go through some things, hopefully quickly, and then do a lot of q and a. First of all, i think everybody in this room understands the significance of the california attack that has occurred in the last 24 hours. The facts are still coming out as to what it means and who did it, and why. Enough, i think all of us are praying for the victims, who have lost their lives. There are actually according to this, 12 or 14 people who died, and 21 who are injured. It is a sad day. But it has been several sad days in