March 12, 2019
Why the Senate Democratic 2020 Hopefuls Are Irrelevant
By William Sullivan
The Senate, last December, voted unanimously to pass the Justice for the Victims of Lynching Act of 2018. That bill fails to cite even a single example of lynching since 1968 as reason for its enactment, and it is little more than a bit of political subterfuge meant to redefine the historical definition of lynching to include instance there two or more people seek to inflict “bodily harm†against a victim based upon the race, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identification of the victim, thereby giving the government power to prosecute any future acts of “lynching†that happen to fit the new definition.
Assuming that at least some Republican senators read the short text of that bill, they likely concluded the same, but also concluded that the risk in opposing the content of the bill outweighed the value in supporting its name.
Firstly, while the Democrats’ bill is entirely disrespectful to the legacy of actual victims of lynching in America, it doesn’t really give the federal government an incredible amount of new powers, as the crime of “lynching†according to the new bill is already prosecutable as a hate crime due to previous legislation. For example, two white men attacking a black man due to race is already prosecutable by the federal government as a hate crime. What is the harm in making such crimes federally prosecutable as a “lynching?â€
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