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.
It actually doesn’t deal with lynching at all, just modifies an existing federal civil rights statutue so that “conspiring with another” to commit a violation of existing statute will be a crime itself, punishable as if you did the actual crime.
So, I guess, if you are on facebook chatting with some friends, and someone says they want to do something that is construed as a violation of the law, if you don’t I guess immediately unfriend them, and turn them in, you might get labelled as a “conspirator”.
““Whoever conspires with another person to violate section 245, 247, or 249 of this title or section 901 of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3631) shall be punished in the same manner as a completed violation of such section, except that if the maximum term of imprisonment for such completed violation is less than 10 years, the person may be imprisoned for not more than 10 years.”.”