mardi 25 février 2014

Lawsuit seeks to remove public memorial to Japanese "comfort women"

In brief:



During WWII Japan forced many women sexually service Japanese service men; they were/are called comfort womenWP . The city of Glendale, California has erected a memorial to them in a public park. A federal lawsuit is seeking to have the memorial removed, mainly on the grounds that it violates the Supremacy ClauseWP of the U.S. Constitution and interferes with the federal government's sole right to conduct U.S. foreign policy. You can find a lot more details at this Popehat article.



IANAL, but it seems to me that a city government having an opinion on foreign matters doesn't interfere with the federal government's ability to conduct foreign policy. I mean, the city of Berkeley has it's own foreign policy, but everyone just ignores them. Also, following the logic of the lawsuit, wouldn't cities be unable to put up memorial to the Armenia genocide, since it would piss off Turkey?





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