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Senate passes Emmett Till bill to make lynching a federal hate crime
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- The Senate approved the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act on Monday to make lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in US history.
- The bill is named after the black teenager who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955.
- The bill is sent to Biden’s desk, where he’s expected to sign it.
The Senate passed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act on Monday night to make lynching a federal hate crime. The bill is sent to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature.
The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act is named after the black teenager who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955.
“After more than 200 failed attempts to outlaw lynching, Congress is finally succeeding in taking a long overdue action by passing the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act. Hallelujah, it is long overdue,” Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said from the floor.
The bill passed the Senate by unanimous consent, meaning every senator signed off on it moving forward.
The House passed the measure last week in a 422-3 vote, with only Republican Reps. Andrew Clyde (Ga.), Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Chip Roy (Texas) voted against it.
The bill now goes to Biden’s desk, where he’s expected to sign it.
Authored in the House by Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), it would designate lynching as a hate crime punishable by up to 30 years in prison.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J said that its passage “underscores the importance of meeting this moment, of reckoning with the past, and of finally being able to say that we did the right thing.”
Booker helped spearhead the legislation in the Senate,
The House overwhelmingly passed the bill in 2020, but it was blocked in the Republican-controlled Senate. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) objected to clearing it by unanimous consent. Under the chamber’s rules, any one senator can try to pass a bill but any one senator can object.
But Paul indicated earlier this year that he supports the latest version.
“I’m pleased to have worked with Senators Cory Booker and Tim Scott to strengthen the final product and ensure the language of this bill defines lynching as the absolutely heinous crime that it is, and I’m glad to cosponsor this bipartisan effort,” Paul said in a statement last month.
Source: The Hill
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March 9, 2022 at 10:01 am
It should be a Federal crime with exceptions. It should apply to Corrupt Politicians like, Lying Corrupt Quid Pro KING Joe, Hillary Clinton etc. Public lynching should apply to anyone that is detrimental to the survival of America. America could have public lynching’s of corrupt politicians at Dallas Stadium in front of 70,000 hard working Americans, charge $10.00 a head and donate all that money minus the Hangman’s fee to charity. At least in Khrushchev’s time if one was a corrupt commissar or considered an enemy of the State, they went to one’s house, pulled one out of bed in the middle of the night, took one outside, put one up against the wall and that person was shot.