“Gorsuch may not know it, but one benefit of this law was that the feds could prosecute criminals in Lahood when the locals, including judges, simply will not, due to their ‘social justice’ crusade.”
And the feds could also prosecute you for “hate” crimes if you punched someone while calling him a name. Does that get your heart all a-flutter?
I can’t say that I like that one, but the two really don’t go together. A hate crime implies that one is able to look into the mind of the (white) perp and figure out what he was thinking, while a gun crime involves shiny, cold, steel.
I think it’s possible for the courts to throw out the hate crime laws, while keeping the gun crime laws.