they handcuffed me to the bar and the bench that was there. when it happened, i was are ready pretty shaken up. a kind of pushed me over into my eyes off it was sitting on me. they were playing tug-of-war with me. they were kind of throwing fake punches at me so i would hit the back of my head when i flinched. amy: we will speak to guardian reporter spencer ackerman as well as flint taylor, attorney and darrell cannon who was tortured by chicago police in 1983. 20 people are arrested after forming a human barricade at a natural gas storage facility in upstate new york near seneca lake. it makes no sense for a place in new york to be allowing fracked gas from other states to be stored underneath this incredible 600 foot deep lake source of drinking water for 100,000 people. amy: josh fox will talk about his arrest and sure his most recent documentary short on the fight to save seneca lake. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war a
reparations package for survivors of police torture, the city is rocked by another police scandal. more victims have come forward to talk about recent abuse inside a secret detention center at homan square. they handcuffed me to the bar and the bench that was there. when it happened, i was are ready pretty shaken up. a kind of pushed me over into my eyes off it was sitting on me. they were playing tug-of-war with me. they were kind of throwing fake punches at me so i would hit the back of my head when i flinched. amy: we will speak to guardian reporter spencer ackerman as well as flint taylor, attorney and darrell cannon who was tortured by chicago police in 1983. 20 people are arrested after forming a human barricade at a natural gas storage facility in upstate new york near seneca lake. it makes no sense for a place in new york to be allowing fracked gas from other states to be stored underneath this incredible 600 foot deep lake source of drinking water for 100,000 peo
reparations package for survivors of police torture, the city is rocked by another police scandal. more victims have come forward to talk about recent abuse inside a secret detention center at homan square. they handcuffed me to the bar and the bench that was there. when it happened, i was are ready pretty shaken up. a kind of pushed me over into my eyes off it was sitting on me. they were playing tug-of-war with me. they were kind of throwing fake punches at me so i would hit the back of my head when i flinched. amy: we will speak to guardian reporter spencer ackerman as well as flint taylor, attorney and darrell cannon who was tortured by chicago police in 1983. 20 people are arrested after forming a human barricade at a natural gas storage facility in upstate new york near seneca lake. it makes no sense for a place in new york to be allowing fracked gas from other states to be stored underneath this incredible 600 foot deep lake source of drinking water for 100,000 peo
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on september 17th, which is constitution day. what better way to celebrate constitution day then talking about the supreme court? with two outstanding experts on the subject. no president had a more significant impact on the supreme court than fdr. he appointed eight justices during his administration, some of whom help change american democracy for the better. he got to a point that no supreme court justices during his first term, which is a point of extreme frustration for him. we ll talk about that later. the role of the supreme court has changed over the years. certainly today it plays a central role in our political process. make no mistake, the court has always been political. joining me today is john barrett, professor of law at st. john s university. and he s the biographer of justice jackson, a popular email newsletter and website. and then editor of jackson s acclaimed 2003 posthumous book, quote that man. and insiders portrait of franklin d. roosevelt. the last n