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The U.S. does not have a domestic terrorism statute on the books. Instead, the DOJ relies on tangentially related statutes to prosecute domestic terrorists. That may soon change. Find out why that matters and more:
courthousenews.com/lawmakers-warn…
@CourthouseNews

Last year, domestic extremists killed 50 people in the U.S., a sharp increase from 37 killed in 2017.

Michael McGarrity, the FBI’s assistant director for counterterrorism, said of the roughly 850 domestic terrorism investigations currently open, about half are rooted in anti-government and anti-authority ideology, while at least 40% are racially motivated.

“The majority of those cases identified as racially motivated involve those who support superiority of the white race,” McGarrity said.