> Is there a lot of lynching going on these days? <
eagleone is correct. It will be like “hate crimes”. “Lynching” will be whatever the federal prosecutors want it to be.
I suspect that it least part of this whole deal is to give federal prosecutors a second bite of the apple. You cannot be tried twice in a state court for the same crime. The Constitution prohibits that.
But you CAN be tried in a federal court for a crime you were acquitted of in a state court. The feds need only find some federal law that you broke.
Rand just tweeted:
@RandPaul
Hey @CoryBooker, @KamalaHarris lynching is already illegal but slapping someone is not lynching, We shouldn’t conflate someone who has an altercation with minor injuries, with lynching, That’s my opposition to this without my amendment to fix it.