If I read this right, this bill would be a subset of assault, which is already a crime. Only the offense would be federalized, with all the attendant victim group politics that entails.
Yes.
The 2020 version was broader though which is why Rand opposed it.
It would have allowed corrupt prosecutors and judges to lock people up for 30 years for nothing to do with the intent of the bill
This must be a win!
# If I read this right, this bill would be a subset of assault, which is already a crime. Only the offense would be federalized, with all the attendant victim group politics that entails.
Right. it’s so a prosecutor can have a second pass at anyone who is ‘inappropriately acquitted’.