s interpretat…g provisions of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act to sue her alleged assailants in federal court. The eventual ruling by the US Supreme Court striking down the section of VAWA the complainant had tried to use, I always thought was an example of judicial cowardice: rather than citing Fifth, Sixth and Tenth Amendment language to show that federal civil courts are quite obviously not the venue to prosecute violations of States’ criminal statutes, the Court instead used a bizarre and circuitous interpretation of the Interstate Commerce clause of the Fourteenth, to argue (safely) that such a case simply failed to show sufficient impact on interstate trade as to merit the use of federal courts to settle it. (?)