ITNJ: Police Raid Multiple Catholic Church Properties in Sweeping Child Sex Abuse Scandal

06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Civil Society, Corruption, Vatican
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Police Raid Multiple Catholic Church Properties in Sweeping Child Sex Abuse Scandal

Saginaw County, MI — On Thursday, the residents of Saginaw County looked on as dozens of police officers raided two Catholic Diocese of Saginaw properties and the home of Bishop Joseph Cistone. The raids were carried out as part of an ongoing investigation into apparently rife sexual abuse in the church—and their history of covering it up. According to Saginaw County Assistant Prosecutor Mark Gaertner, the police raids were necessary because the church was refusing to cooperate with the ongoing investigation into a torrent of sexual abuse allegations.

Yoda: Pacific Trash Patch Twice Size of Texas

03 Environmental Degradation, 12 Water, Earth Intelligence
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The Trash Patch In The Pacific Is Many Times Bigger Than We Thought

Between California and Hawaii, there's a teeming patch of garbage that's stretched over an area more than double the size of Texas. We already knew it was huge. There's a reason it's called the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” But new research has found that there is many times more garbage in this patch than previously thought – 4 to 16 times more than past estimates, according to a paper published today in Nature Scientific Reports.

Mongoose: UK Queen Guarded by Fucking Morons

07 Other Atrocities
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Rape probe as ‘terrified’ Queen’s Guard rookies forced to perform sex acts on camera

Phi Beta Iota: Every man present should be sentenced to 90 days of hard labor and be dishonorably discharged. The officers and non-commissioned officers not present — including the Regimental Sergeant Major — should be reduced in rank and administratively discharged. The unit should be disbanded and its flag decommissioned.

Steven Aftergood: CRS on Modes of Constitutional Interpretation

Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government
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MODES OF CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION

The US Constitution leaves many basic questions of constitutional law unanswered, whether because they could not be anticipated or because the text is broadly worded or ambiguous.

Consequently, “Interpretation is necessary to determine the meaning of ambiguous provisions of the Constitution or to answer fundamental questions left unaddressed by the drafters,” a new report from the Congressional Research Service explains.

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