Amy we will discuss Merrick Garlands record with terry oneill, president of the National Organization for women and Ian Millhiser, author of, injustices the Supreme Courts history of comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted. Then to one of the Worst Supreme Court rulings in history. We will speak to adam cohen, author of, imbeciles the Supreme Court, american eugenics, and the sterilization of carrie buck. This was a case about a poor woman, nothing was wrong with her but being feebleminded. As a result with the endorsement of the Supreme Court, they sterilized her against her will and during that time, about 70,000 americans were sterilized. Amy judge Oliver Wendell holmes with the majority opinion to bring three generations of imbeciles are enough. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. After weeks of speculation president obama has announced , his nominee to replace the late Justice Antonin
Nomination not with the intent of seeing the nominee confirmed, but in order to politicize it for purposes of the election. Amy we will discuss rrick garlands record with terry oneill, president of the National Organization for women and Ian Millhiser, author of, injustices the Supreme Courts history of comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted. Then to one of the Worst Supreme Court rulings in history. We will speak to adam cohen, author of, imbeciles the Supreme Court, american eugenics, and the sterilization of carrie buck. This was a case about a poor woman, nothing was wrong with her but being feebleminded. As a result with the endorsement of the Supreme Court, they sterilized her against her will and during that time, about 70,000 americans were sterilized. Amy judge Oliver Wendell holmes with the majority opinion to bring three generations of imbeciles are enough. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report.
Flooding. Some gusts in the 40 mph range in places like maine and wind chills in some cases are below zero. Well have a full update on this storm and more in the complete news coming up in an hour. A highlevel of delegates includes the president of the United States paid tribute to president abdullah. President salman is the inside story. Be hello im ray suarez. The american relationship with the modern saudi arabia has always been, to put it politely, complicated. The u. S. Has sold some of its most advance weapon systems and trained saudis in their use and at other times support saudis military as it went against israel u. S. closest ally. Saudi arabia has spread vast sums of money across the muslim world building mosques hiring clerics, and distributing educational materials all in the growth of a strain of fundamentalist arabs. And at the same time saudi arabia has been willing in the gulf war to apply with the United States. To expel iraq from kuwait, and to support the overthrow
And for the first time in history, a commemorative blue plaque is awarded to a woman of Indian Heritage. She was a British Secret agent in the second world war. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The best is yet to come, said President Trump as he formally accepted the Republican Party nomination to run for a second term. He warned that no one would be safe in an america governed byjoe biden, his democratic rival in novembers election. He condemned mr biden as a left wing extremist who would demolish the american dream. Mr trump was speaking to more than 1,000 supporters on the white house lawn, despite claims he was using the executive residence as a political prop. From washington, david willis reports. Cheering and applause music plays 0nto the south lawn, to a rousing reception from an invited and un socially distanced audience, stepped donald and melania trump. The white house a Federal Building a controversial, some have said unconstitutional backdrop, for a political pitch