A Democracy Now! exclusive: Civil-rights attorney Lynne Stewart talks with us after a federal appeals court Tuesday upheld her two-and-a-half year sentence of distributing press releases on behalf of her jailed client, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as the blind sheikh, who is serving a life sentence on terror-related charges. The panel sent the case back to the trial judge to determine whether she deserved a longer prison term. Plus a story on how the consumer loan industry continues to squeeze customers and proposal to end 2/3 rule in the California state legislature.
