Oklahoma’s Ban on Sharia Law Declared Unconstitutional
OKLAHOMA CITY – A federal judge in Oklahoma City has thrown out the state’s ban on the use of Sharia law in government, opining that the restriction violates the United States Constitution.
The ban had been approved at the polls in 2010, and passed with the support of more than 70% of voters.
However, just two days after the ban was approved as a state constitutional amendment, Muneer Awad, the then-director of the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed suit in federal court through the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), claiming that the law violated the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses of the First Amendment.
He was granted a temporary injunction days later, which was later upheld by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
On Thursday, Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1994, placed a permanent injunction against the ban, declaring it to be unconstitutional. More...
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