Texas' Rep. Louie Gohmert one of just four votes against bill to make lynching a federal hate crime
Source: Dallas News
House voted 410-4 on historic Emmett Till Antilynching Act, 120 years after first effort to enact a federal ban.
By Todd J. Gillman
2:22 PM on Feb 26, 2020 Updated 44 minutes ago
Updated at 5:20 p.m. with comments from Gohmert challenger Hank Gilbert
East Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert cast one of just four no votes Wednesday as the U.S. House approved historic legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime.
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Gohmert, a Tyler Republican, said afterward in a floor speech that he couldnt support a ridiculous 10-year prison term for lynching as provided for in the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, named for a 14-year-old African American boy who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi.
Such serious crimes should be prosecuted under state murder statutes, he said, and subject to the death penalty as in Texas.
But for more than a century, a key impetus for a federal ban on lynching has been to allow federal law enforcement to step in when local police dont.
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Maeve
(42,288 posts)underpants
(182,893 posts)Thanks for the heads up
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Did Duncan Hunter leave yet? Maybe the wording was confusing.
I would have guessed 335 - 100 on the vote.
Evolve Dammit
(16,773 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)onenote
(42,768 posts)The few differences in the bill should be reconciled by conference rather quickly.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)Gothmog
(145,599 posts)We throw in a couple of draft picks
TexasBushwhacker
(20,219 posts)East Texas is Klan Kountry.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)From the article:
The Senate has already approved the bill, which heads to the presidents desk 120 years after a House committee first quashed an effort to ban lynching.
keithbvadu2
(36,926 posts)onenote
(42,768 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,223 posts)Paladin
(28,275 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,178 posts)Dumb as a bag of hair and loyal to Trump as a slobbering dog.
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)I couldn't believe that she could do the right thing. I guess she has to once in a while
Initech
(100,104 posts)area51
(11,922 posts)raccoon
(31,126 posts)prosecuted under this law.
from wikipedia:
In 1967, after the state government refused to prosecute, the United States federal government charged eighteen individuals with civil rights violations. Seven were convicted and received relatively minor sentences for their actions. Outrage over the activists' disappearances helped gain passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Chaney,_Goodman,_and_Schwerner