[PTBAA]

Seems like cruel and unusual punishment for simply being a woman.

[savedbygrace]

I probably incorrectly interpreted what the judge wrote. I thought his point was that such a law should be at the State level, not federal. Said there is no constitutional power for the federal government to do this.

[Ingtar]

Seems like the same logic was used, to a point, as was used to legalize abortion.

[Robert DeLong]

Last Tuesday, US District Judge Bernard Friedman dismissed conspiracy and mutilation charges against each of the eight defendants, ruling that the 1996 federal law banning female genital mutilation was unconstitutional because Congress has no power to enforce such a law.

So does that mean all laws passed by Congress are unconstitutional?

That has to be the greatest overreach ever by a judge, in my opinion.

[Gay State Conservative]

Obamacare is Constitutional but this ban isn't? Despicable!

[BenLurkin]

Bernard A. Friedman (born September 23, 1943)

Education: Detroit College of Law (J.D.)

[ronnie raygun]

#tag idiots will not touch this, its muslim

[MichaelCorleone]

We’re going to find out soon which protected class is at the top of the PC food chain.

[wjcsux]

Maybe Occasional-Cortex can introduce a bill banning FGM when the new Congress is sworn in.

[grey_whiskers]

Liberal White Women, who through their pushing for the 19th Amendment foisted most of this crap upon us, are going to be the *most* surprised when they are forced under the bus by their imported “diverse” pets.

[Real Cynic No More]

I thought civil rights were a federal issue that federal courts had no problem enforcing?

[Arm_Bears]

Concerned?

I haven’t heard a peep out of any of the usual suspects.

[PTBAA]

Female Genital Mutilation seems like a cruel and unusual punishment for simply being a woman.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Islamophobes.

Punish those complaining women for their hate crimes.

[MarMema]

Nagarwala still faces charges of conspiring to travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding

[MarMema]

states allowing fgm

[SecondAmendment]

And where are the broads from NOW ???
Not a peep about the very bill the pushed to get passed a few years ago !

[Labyrinthos]

There are times when my fellow Freepers are dumber than a box of Democrats after an all night meth party. As I have explained on other threads, the the Reagan appointed judge made the right decision under the Constitution, even if the result is unpopular:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3707525/posts?page=69#69

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3707525/posts?page=80#80

etc.

The takeaway from most of the posts on this thread is that Freepers despise activist judges unless the judicial activism supports the conservative view, in which case judicial activism is ok. Idiots.