Back in April, federal authorities broke up what seemed to be a ring of medical professionals, allegedly, who specialized in inflicting Female Gential Mutilation (FGM) on young girls from a peculiar Muslim sect. See:

Michigan Doctor Arrested For Genital Mutilation Of Little Girls
Second Michigan Doctor Arrested For Sexually Mutilating Little Girls

and related:
Female Genital Mutilation: An Epidemic That The Obama Administration Is Hiding
Tennessee: Female Genital Mutilation Is Not One Of Our Concerns

The case has finally made its way to court and the federal judge rendered something of a shocking and counterfactual ruling…the feds have no role in combating FGM.

A federal judge Tuesday dismissed female genital mutilation charges against several doctors in the first criminal case of its kind nationwide, arguing the law is unconstitutional.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman comes two weeks after defense lawyers mounted the first challenge to a 22-year-old genital mutilation law that went unused until April 2017.

That’s when Dr. Jumana Nagarwala of Northville was arrested and accused of heading a conspiracy that lasted 12 years, involved seven other people and led to mutilating the genitalia of nine girls as part of a religious procedure practiced by some members of the Dawoodi Bohra, a Muslim sect from India that has a small community in Metro Detroit.

Friedman delivered a significant, but not fatal, blow to a novel criminal prosecution being closely followed by members of the sect and international human-rights groups opposed to female genital mutilation.

Friedman removed four defendants from the case — including three mothers accused of subjecting their daughters to female genital mutilation — while concluding Congress had no authority to enact a law criminalizing female genital mutilation.

“There is nothing commercial or economic about FGM,” Friedman wrote in a 28-page opinion. (Female genital mutilation) is not part of a larger market and it has no demonstrated effect on interstate commerce. The Commerce Clause does not permit Congress to regulate a crime of this nature.”

This is the decision.