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US v. Morrison

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The Legislative History of VAWA as Civil Rights Remedy

The impact in this provision of VAWA being found unconstitutional is really in what it demonstrates about our government and the society not taking this seriously. As a woman, you think like, okay, what is my remedy for that happening to me? If my movement has been restricted,. if my employment opportunities have been restricted, if my consumer spending and participation in the economy, like I please, if that has been limited because of gender based violence, where is my remedy? Like what law allows me to sue for that, right? It's important to just highlight that while there are other remedies available, like criminal law or, you know, state statutory schemes for being made whole after suffering genderbased

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