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This "Justice for Victims of Lynching" act is so much worse than it looks from its title (Dems are very good at misleading titles). It does not use the commonly understood definition of lynching, which every normal person is against. In this law lynching means to "willfully cause bodily injury" to someone in a protected class. Could this include pushing someone who gets a red mark on his arm?

What Kamala Harris did was to amend the language of the bill to extend the protected classes already listed to include GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, the first time that transgenders are listed in federal law as a protected class. Below is the actual wording from the law.

(1) OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN.

—If 2 or more persons willfully cause bodily injury to any other person, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin of any person—

(2) OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, OR DISABILITY.—

“(A) IN GENERAL.—If 2 or more persons, in any circumstance described in subparagraph (B), willfully cause bodily injury to any other person because of the actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of any person—