Senate passes bill to make lynching a federal crime

The Hill ^ | 02/14/19 | Jordain Carney

[true believer forever]

The bill, introduced by Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), makes lynching punishable as a hate crime.

The bill previously passed the Senate in December, but it did not clear the then-GOP controlled House before the end of the 115th Congress. It passed on Thursday by a voice vote.

[true believer forever]

Booker spoke on the floor about the importance of the anti-lynching legislation and referenced actor Jussie Smollet, hours after the actor was on Good Morning America. When you realize that Kamala was trying to pass an "anti-lynching" bill just as her friend Smollett lied that two Trump supporters tried to lynch him.......things begin to make sense. Smollett attended Kamala's announcement that she is running for president a week before the "attack".

Will Harris and Booker introduce a bill that makes hate crime hoaxes a federal crime?

[iontheball]

This is how the Senate is spending its time. Pathetically stupid.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Good to see Congres solving critical problems ...

[txrefugee]

Guess Pelosi and Schumer are getting ready for the Mueller report to be released. There are a lot of Democrats who should be lynched as a result of this sedition.

[A strike]

Yeah; let’s stop all that rampant lynching for sure.

[Psalm 144]

This is how the Senate is spending its time. Pathetically stupid.

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Yes. This is a dying nation.

[Williams]

I cannot think of a lynching incident in the last 50 years.

[Gay State Conservative]

"Lynching" that results in serious harm,or death,should obviously be a crime...certainly a crime in every state and territory and perhaps even a Federal crime.

But I suspect that there's more than one way to define the word.Although "lynchings" were once a huge and despicable problem in this country I wonder how big a problem they are *today*.

[DIRTYSECRET]

A solution in search of a problem.

[Altura Ct.]

Really? How about rampant black crime? Is that an issues or are we going top pretend that ‘lynching’ is rampant?

[true believer forever]

This is how the Senate is spending its time. Pathetically stupid.

and stupidly pathetic. Have a great day (anyway)!

[true believer forever]

Good to see Congres solving critical problems ...

I don't get how so many people don't get what is going on in so many dems antics just like this.

Have a great day, freeper!

[Sirius Lee]

Yeah; let’s stop all that rampant lynching for sure.

And let us not forget to federalize laws about bathing on the Sabbath.

[jagusafr]

Since lynching doesn’t just mean hanging someone, look for its definition to be greatly expanded, maybe even to include making someone feel bad.

[chris37]

Our government is utterly pointless.

What a bunch of jerks.

[true believer forever]

Guess Pelosi and Schumer are getting ready for the Mueller report to be released. There are a lot of Democrats who should be lynched as a result of this sedition.

I actually got a stomach ache yesterday listening to all the McCabe stuff. It really was chilling.

Have no fear and have a great freeper day!

[PapaBear3625]

The bill:

(a) OFFENSE —Chapter 13 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

‘‘§ 250. Offenses involving lynching

‘‘Whoever willfully, acting as part of any collection of people, assembled for the purpose and with the intention of engaging in conduct described in paragraph (1) or (2)(A) of section 249(a) against any person, causes death to any person, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined under this title, or both.’’.

I wonder if they realize that this could be applied more often to groups of blacks assaulting and killing whites (like in a riot, or in "polar bear hunting") than to any case of "classical" lynching? Or that they count on judges never allowing that interpretation?

[BadLands59]

False reports of hate crimes should be a federal offense, but we’ll never live to see that happen. Instead, we’ll see an increase in hoaxes by “people of color”, or “people of homosexuality”, or “people of transgenderism” involving ropes, and the supposed perps will of course always be “people of white’.

[jeffersondem]

The article does not cite specific language about what is in the bill. If this proposal makes all murder a federal crime it is a bad bill.

Murder is against state law and should remain so. The FBI simply can not be trusted to seek justice. Washington D.C. can not be trusted.

Law enforcement and jury trials should remain at the local level except where the U.S. Constitution requires federal action.

[OKSooner]

How many people have been lynched in the last 50 years?