Attorney General Mukasey has never been more RIGHT

[Catch22Dem]

I guess it's true what they say. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I don't think Mukasey has a track record quite that good, but in this case, he's spot on! The members of the court who said this woman wouldn't face further persecution should be thrown off the fucking bench.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/09/22/genital.mutiliation.immigrant/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. attorney general is trying to prevent immigration authorities from sending a Muslim woman to her home country, where she was a victim of female genital mutilation.

In a stinging order overriding federal immigration courts, Mukasey blasted a decision that said a 28-year-old citizen and native of Mali should be expelled "because her genitalia already had been mutilated she had no basis to fear future persecution if returned to her home country."

"Female genital mutilation is not necessarily a one-time event," Mukasey said. He noted that the board in a previous case had granted asylum in to one woman whose "vaginal opening was sewn shut approximately five times after being opened to allow for sexual intercourse and child birth."

[flor-de-jasmim]

1. Good. Wonder what Palin would have said...

[Catch22Dem]

2. She wouldn't dare talk about genitils in public! (n/t)

[notadmblnd]

3. Shhhhh...don't giver her any ideas,

she might implement a similar program, beginning with her daughters.

[tsuki]

5. She would have made the woman pay for her own mutilation. nt

[sattahipdeep]

4. Fuck Mukasey. New Rules For FBI To Spy On You Even More

The rule revisions require the approval of Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, who has signaled that they will take effect Oct. 1. FBI agents already are being trained on the changes, though officials said yesterday that they would consider making adjustments after receiving suggestions from interest groups and lawmakers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103306.html?hpid=topnews

It also would rewrite 1976 guidelines established after Nixon-era abuses that restrict the FBI's authority to intervene in times of civil disorder and to infiltrate opposition groups.