This justice is long overdue.”Democratic Rep. Karen Bass of California, who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, called lynching a lasting legacy of slavery.Congress has failed to pass anti-lynching legislation nearly 200 times, starting with a bill introduced in 1900 by North Carolina Rep. George Henry White, the only black member of Congress at the time.“Make no mistake, lynching is terrorism,’’ she said. But, in respect to racial lynching, there really to me remains at least a good argument that Section 2 of the 13A alone provides a constitutional authorization.Federal laws that criminalized what had always been common law state level crimes were passed because Southern States were refusing to enforce the law when the victims were black and the perpetrators white. His explanation is ignorant bullshit. Updated, 4:25 a.m. 2/27/20 with comments from Rep. Amash WASHINGTON — Lynching is not considered a hate crime under federal law, but that’s expected to change soon. In the many cases where a person’s guilt is obvious due to witnesses, DNA evidence, a confession, etc., those people should be executed.I jabe mo issue with the military reining in the police.This is MAGA country, bitch. Lynching is homicide, so, as already pointed out, it is already illegal. “Amash said on Twitter that the bill covers acts that are already criminal, and which the Constitution leaves to states to handle.Although Congress cannot truly rectify the terror and horror of these acts, Bass said, a legislative body that once included slave owners and Ku Klux Klan members will belatedly “stand up and do our part so that justice is delivered in the future.’’Rush, a Democrat whose Chicago district includes Till’s former home, said the bill will belatedly achieve justice for Till and more than 4,000 other lynching victims, most of them African Americans. A bill to make lynching a hate crime under federal law passed the House on Wednesday, making it the first attempt since 1900 poised to successfully make … There simply should be a higher standard for death sentences that go beyond the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard. Perhaps they have read the writing on the wall and are trying to head off the torches and pitchforks at the pass. Leavitt to others, David.“So, the question to ask the people pushing this law is, “what states are refusing to prosecute perpetrators of lynchings?”In January, the U.S. Department of Justice intervened in Harris' case, charging her with three hate crimes that could add an additional 10 years to any sentence she gets at the state level. How about some new laws about buffalo hunting or bow and arrow control?The bill's main effect is to make these conspiracies punishable to the same extent (or greater) as the underlying crimes, some of which are punishable by death. Lynchings are totally still a thing. To be fair, the economic fortunes of American blacks were advancing rapidly until Democrats and progressives started “helping” them; then, their economic progress stalled, drug use among minorities skyrocketed, and the black family disintegrated.If the death penalty is the problem, the logical thing to do is to support an amendment to the bill to remove it. U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, of Michigan, was among four members of Congress to vote against a bill Wednesday that would make lynching a federal hate crime. President Donald Trump is expected to sign the bill, which designates lynching as a federal hate crime punishable by up to life in prison, a fine, or both.Democratic Sens.
After more than 100 years of trying to get through Congress, an anti-lynching bill that makes it a federal crime passed in the U.S, House on Wednesday.
Rep. Justin Amash was one of 4 representatives to vote against making lynching … The evidence against suicide was he was hanging by belts that weren’t his, wearing shoes that weren’t his (and that apparently disappeared between the crime scene and the morgue), with no platform/box that he would have had to stand on to put his head in the noose and then kick away – in the middle of an all-white trailer park a couple miles from his house (odd place for a black kid to go to commit suicide don’t you think).
Illegal to murder hatefully. A 10% error rate for something like this is absolutely unconscionable.What leaders told them to? The only evidence of suicide the coroner presented was ‘his uncle had recently died’.
How could any society ever function without sich visionaries at the helm?Good luck explaining nuanced thinking to the mob
And it is one of the symptoms of how stupid and irrational politics is.I can’t speak for Amash, but on a national abortion prohibition, I can understand and respect some logic for it, even though I disagree.