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#HR35 bans activities that are already illegal under federal law, and it’s based on the unconstitutional federalization of criminal punishment, which is a threat to civil liberties and civil rights—particularly for people of color.
To be clear, the bill does not make lynching a new federal hate crime. Murdering someone on account of their race, or conspiring to do so, is not legal under federal law. It’s already a federal crime, and it’s already a hate crime.
#HR35 criminalizes conspiracies to violate various federal criminal laws, including many that are unrelated to lynching. But it’s already illegal to conspire to commit any federal crime, so the acts this bill covers are already criminal.
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