#questioned — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #questioned, aggregated by home.social.
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#NativeNations Mobilize Against #ICE Targeting and Profiling
#Native Nations across #TurtleIsland are working to ensure their citizens’ safety amid rising reports of #IndigenousPeople being #RaciallyProfiled, #stopped, #questioned, and mistakenly #detained for undocumented #immigrants. They’re also reminding their citizens to find strength and resilience in the histories their communities have already overcome.
by Luna Reyna, #UnderscoreNativeNews [#UNN] + #IndianCountryToday [#ICT]
"Tribes across the U.S. are responding to reports of Indigenous people being racially profiled, stopped, questioned and mistakenly detained by federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants as part of the Trump administration’s sweeping immigrant crackdown.
Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said in a Jan. 24 news release that his 'office has received multiple reports from Navajo citizens that they have had negative, and sometimes traumatizing, experiences with federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants in the Southwest.'
"'We now know that Navajo people and enrolled members of other tribes are being detained in Phoenix and other cities by #ICE,' Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley said during a Naabik’íyáti’ committee meeting on Jan. 23."
Read more:
https://www.underscore.news/justice/federal-policy/native-nations-mobilize-against-ice-targeting-and-profiling/
#RosebudSioux #ChippewaCree #ICERaids #ResistICE #ShonshoneBannocTribes #CDIB #Arizona #LummiNation #NavajoNation #Dine #TohonoOodhamNation #NoOneIsIllegalOnStolenLand -
How #British #police put 16 #men in the #dock for #consensual #sadomasochism.
#UK #filmmaker #CharlieLyne’s vertical video #LastingMarks delves into the #history and complicated #legacy of the UK-wide #police #investigation, #codenamed ‘#OperationSpanner’, that cost over £2.5 million and saw around 100 men #questioned over their #sexlives.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Police #Incarceration #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia
https://aeon.co/videos/how-british-police-put-16-men-in-the-dock-for-consensual-sadomasochism
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#Is the #Debt #Limit #Constitutional?
The 14th Amendment states that “the #validity of the #public #debt of the United States, #authorized #by #law ... #shall #not #be #questioned.”
Some legal scholars contend #that #language #overrides the #statutory #borrowing #limit, which currently caps federal debt at $31.4 trillion and requires congressional approval to raise or lift.
“The Constitution’s text bars the federal government from defaulting on the debt — even a little, even for a short while,” Garrett Epps, a constitutional scholar at the University of Oregon’s law school, wrote in November. “There’s a case to be made that if Congress decides to default on the debt, the president has the power and the obligation to pay it without congressional permission, even if that requires borrowing more money to do so.”
Other legal scholars say the limit is constitutional. “The statute is a necessary component of Congress’s power to borrow and has proved capable of serving as a useful catalyst for budgetary reform aimed at debt reduction,” Anita S. Krishnakumar, a Georgetown University law professor, wrote in a 2005 law review article.
The president has repeatedly said it is the job of Congress to raise the limit to avoid an economically catastrophic default.
Top officials, including Ms. Yellen and the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, have sidestepped questions about whether they believe the Constitution would compel the government to continue borrowing to pay its bills after the X-date.