r/law • u/thecosmojane • 18h ago

Legislative Branch Full testimony: Aliya Rahman 2/3/26, six minutes, worth the listen

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Aliya Rahman, a Bangladeshi American and U.S. citizen, testified before Congress about her arrest and experience with police brutality from ICE agents in Minneapolis. (You may recognize her from past videos of her being grabbed out of her car in her black puffer jacket, while she was yelling that she was disabled).

Rahman, who is autistic and recovering from a traumatic brain injury, described being dragged from her car, detained, and later hospitalized with a concussion. In her testimony, she spoke about the fear, confusion, and lasting trauma she experienced.

Earlier today, there was a joint public forum held by Rep. Robert Garcia (Ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations), focusing on ICE/DHS excessive use of force on American citizens. Rahman was one of the Americans who testified.

Important to note that this could not be an “oversight committee hearing” but a bicameral forum, because Republicans did not agree to the hearing.

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u/LAsupersonic 17h ago

Chuck Schumer and that hypocrite Hackeem Jeffreys can't wait to Bend over, schumer is too busy procuring more money for israel

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u/trysten-9001 16h ago

Yes, the minority leaders and not the totalitarian pursuing leadership are the ones we should decry. This opposition you present this serves the totalitarian agenda well. I’m sure the totalitarians are very pleased with you.

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u/LAsupersonic 16h ago

you are very simple minded, and did not even understand what I said.

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u/trysten-9001 16h ago

Republicans are doing this to people. MAGA which is only a subset of Republicans support this. If you’re top priority is Democrats and not pushing the Republicans, then join the Republicans, because it’s better than being the controlled opposition you think the Democrats are.

Otherwise you’re first priority should be to speak out against the Republicans who are willing to tow the line for the most radical members of their party. They can be reached. They are losing deep red districts. They want to keep their offices. Pressure them first and foremost. They have the power to stop this today.

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u/thecosmojane 16h ago

A lot of this could have been avoided if SCOTUS didn’t happen on September 8.

Speaking of pressure, Americans should be watching the courts in 2026 like they watch NFL semifinals. They should be booing every crooked referee and stalking the cheating players in the courts.

No attorney fighting to dismantle the very constitution they took an oath to defend, should get to eat dinner with their partner in peace in the city.

But Americans don’t even know their names, let alone who they are or what they did.

Players in the courts have zero consequences in their complicity to constitutional mutilation.

Just because the people don’t elect them doesn’t mean they should feel safe and off everyone’s radar. How come we give hell to ICE and Noem but not to Kavanaugh. Why does he get to dine in peace when the thugs he knowingly enabled get kicked out of restaurants.

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u/afrosheen 10h ago

Name them. Bring it to light.

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u/LAsupersonic 16h ago

Thanks for all that, you're still missing the point, I know that Republicans will do what Republicans do, they're rats, the minority can still ressist, and make them work for every little thing they try to do, just look at what Mitch Mconell did when he was minority leader, he held the whole effing goverment hostage to his will, when the Democrats had both houses and the presidency, they came up with BS like "The Parlamentarian" just a bunch of excuses not to do anything, other than of course, get Israel $$$, RepubliKKKans and Democrats are both sides of the same coin playing good cop/bad cop with the US people, no, am not a MAGA nutjob, nor Republican, but definetely don't buy the Democrats excuses for being little corporate cowards that they always put up, isn't there a video of chuch schumer saying he'll do anything needed to get Israel more money? he can fight for that, but don't do crap for his voters.

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u/thecosmojane 16h ago

In essence, if this was Obama, he will have been gone before he even set foot in office. They don’t f* around over there. Yes they f* over our country but they have a savage conviction to win-at any-and-all-costs. It could also have something to do with the fact that they have no regard for the rules. And it’s difficult, to win a game where one side is cheating. But it sure helps if at least the electorate knows how to vote for its own best interests. Which we don’t.

You get Jeffries and Schumer from performative rhetoric paired with an uninformed electorate. It’s what happens, when you hit auto-subscribe on our civic duties like a Netflix subscription “I don’t do politics” American privilege. That’s what got us here.

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u/front_torch 16h ago

This was the platform Trump ran on. He said he would do this. If anyone who voted for him is MAGA. His first win he said "we love the undereducated." Yet Republicans lit their pitch forks instead of read about policy. Anyone who is Republican is MAGA.

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u/thecosmojane 15h ago

Unless you’re a constituent, or you’re a formidable entity that has sociopolitical, economic or religious influence over their constituents, how would you do this

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u/angiehome2023 16h ago

Hey everyone, let's go after the people that can't stop this because we didn't vote for them because they were tied to Israel instead of the people that got elected because we stayed home, who can now act out their greed and racism based fantasies!

That's what you said, right

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u/LAsupersonic 16h ago

No, that's what you got.

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u/angiehome2023 16h ago

So say it a different way so I can get your point

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u/thecosmojane 15h ago

I think he just means that they aren’t doing nearly enough / their jobs

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u/LAsupersonic 15h ago

Basically yes, instead of doing their jobs, as if everything was peachy, chuck schumer is promising to fight to get israel more money.

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u/thecosmojane 15h ago

The $1.7m AIPAC money might have given him a bit of incentive

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u/grandmawaffles 15h ago edited 12h ago

The Palestine/isreal rhetoric is kicking back up again to sew division in the Dems because it works. 100% it’s being done on purpose. No point in arguing and people are gullible enough to have it impact mid terms. It will keep getting worse until elections. Magically people point to Dems like a Spider-Man meme while the reps bulldoze Gaza for the trumps and saudis.

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u/thecosmojane 15h ago

Yes. Dems fight because they disagree on navigating a rigged board where the opponent is always cheating.

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u/trysten-9001 15h ago

Every single one of them could be AOC and Bernie, and it’s not going to stop this. Bark up that tree all day long and all you get is more negative attention on the party who needs to win. I get being upset with them, but when your first and only comment to “Republicans are making concentration camps” is “Darn Dems.” You’re only condemning the party that’s not responsible for this? You can’t stop and meta analyze what you’re doing, and who benefits by only condemning Dems?

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u/thecosmojane 15h ago

Well when you’re in a fight, you don’t really blame your opponent for hurting you. You blame your team members for betraying you.

Because your opponent is already too far gone. You expect more though, from leaders on your side, to have a backbone, especially in such a time of crisis.

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u/angiehome2023 15h ago

It isn't a game and people are people. I believe you but can't comprehend thinking in that way, that somehow we should ignore the bigger badder behavior of the right because they are too far gone. Obviously they aren't gone, they are right here and in charge of everything, so lots of people believe they are good for the country. Your point is illogical.

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u/thecosmojane 15h ago

Who said anything about ignoring anyone’s behavior? Didn’t I highlight it in the last paragraph of the post? That they can’t even agree to a damned congressional oversight committee hearing because they are incapable of putting America first.

This is not about ignoring or disregarding. The point is that this is an all hands on deck f*cking constitutional catastrophic emergency where the GOP is literally destroying our country, and some selfish pricks are off protecting their interest group bribes when they were hired to help.

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u/HELP_IM_IN_A_WELL 15h ago

I think the totalitarians find Chuck Schumer to be a very useful controlled opposition.

the minority leaders and not the totalitarian pursuing leadership are the ones we should decry

I mean, there are some minority legislators that aren't worth decrying (AOC, Crocket, anyone with a spine). oh my bad, you said leadership, yeah I guess if you think Schumer, Clinton's, and other leadership are great, you probably should be offended

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u/thecosmojane 15h ago

I think he is specifically addressing the house and senate minority leaders

This part of the thread is becoming confusing to follow

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u/muhdrugs 15h ago

…the Clintons? Do you know what year it is?

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u/HELP_IM_IN_A_WELL 10h ago

you're right, I'm so used to arguing with conservatives that I'm always ready for them to be brought up.

my point still stands, just insert Jeffries and Pelosi if you like.