Biden signs bill named after Emmett Till making lynching a hate crime

Mar 30, 2022 View Original Article
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"Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Chip Roy of Texas and Andrew S. Clyde of Georgia."
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-6% Liberal
"Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Chip Roy of Texas and Andrew S. Clyde of Georgia."
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-6% Liberal
"Biden said during the bill signing ceremony that the antilynching law was not just about the civil rights struggle from decades ago, citing the 2020 shooting of Ahmaud Arbery and the white supremacist rally that took place in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017."
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-24% Liberal
"From the bullets in the back of Ahmaud Arbery to countless other acts of violence, countless victims known and unknown, the same racial hatred that drove the mob to hang a noose brought that mob carrying torches out of the fields of Charlottesville just a few years ago, said Biden."
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-24% Liberal
"The enacted legislation, introduced by Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., will make it possible to prosecute a crime as lynching when a conspiracy to commit a hate crime results in death or serious bodily injury, with perpetrators facing up to 30 years in prison."
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-26% Liberal
"WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act on Tuesday, making lynching a federal hate crime after more than a century of failed efforts in Congress to pass similar legislation."
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-42% Liberal

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