Just learned Trump DOJ has now abandoned its defense of the statute criminalizing, of all things, female genital mutilation. This is what happens when you torch your institutional responsibilities to defend statutes, and gut the traditional standard DOJ has applied in past adminhttps://twitter.com/neal_katyal/status/1116005949418946565 …
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You're not wrong, but there's more to it than that. The US statute criminalizing #FGM can't be defended under 14th amend. w/out also conceding it must also apply to #MGM. This is about protecting #circumcision, & #ThrowingGirlsUndertheBus to do it #i2 https://theconversation.com/unconstitutional-us-anti-fgm-law-exposes-hypocrisy-in-child-protection-109305 …
7:01 PM - 11 Apr 2019
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