How Many Times Will U.S. House Condemn Hate Crimes?
By Jacob Sullum In April the House voted overwhelmingly to dramatically expand the “hate crimes” covered by federal law. Last week, for obscure legislative reasons I will not pretend to understand, it did it again. The House, which approved similar legislation four other times in previous sessions without getting the Senate to go along, has now approved the bill as part of a conference report on the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act, which the Senate has not passed yet but is expected to approve soon. I must have missed something, because in April the bill was referred to the Senate, where I thought it was expected to pass on its own. The main change I’ve detected so far is that the bill is now officially called the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, whereas before it was officially called the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act but also known as the Matthew Shepard Act. Matthew Shepard, a gay man who was beaten to death in Wyoming, and Ja
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