Texas' Rep. Louie Gohmert one of just four votes against bill to make lynching a federal hate crime

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Dallas News


House voted 410-4 on historic Emmett Till Antilynching Act, 120 years after first effort to enact a federal ban.

By Todd J. Gillman

2:22 PM on Feb 26, 2020 — Updated 44 minutes ago

Updated at 5:20 p.m. with comments from Gohmert challenger Hank Gilbert

East Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert cast one of just four no votes Wednesday as the U.S. House approved historic legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime.

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Gohmert, a Tyler Republican, said afterward in a floor speech that he couldn’t support a “ridiculous” 10-year prison term for lynching as provided for in the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, named for a 14-year-old African American boy who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi.

Such serious crimes should be prosecuted under state murder statutes, he said, and subject to the death penalty as in Texas.

But for more than a century, a key impetus for a federal ban on lynching has been to allow federal law enforcement to step in when local police don’t.

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/02/26/texas-rep-louie-gohmert-one-of-just-four-votes-against-bill-to-make-lynching-a-federal-hate-crime/

[Maeve]

1. Yep, he wants to lynch people for...um...lynching eom

[underpants]

2. Hold it...there's a feather coming this way

Thanks for the heads up

[CaptYossarian]

3. Were Steve King and Glenn Grothman in respective comas?

Did Duncan Hunter leave yet? Maybe the wording was confusing.

I would have guessed 335 - 100 on the vote.

[Evolve Dammit]

4. and Louis was a fucking judge. Head Slap. God he is a special kind of impaired.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Perhaps tRump will veto this or the RepubliCON Senate will not even consider it. . . . nt

[onenote]

13. The Senate passed a nearly identical bill by voice vote a year ago.

The few differences in the bill should be reconciled by conference rather quickly.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Good, thanks for the background. Gohmert-like deniers will have to go on record. . . . nt

[Gothmog]

6. Can Texas trade Louie to another state?

We throw in a couple of draft picks

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. Tyler would just elect another one like him

East Texas is Klan Kountry.

[Blue_Tires]

7. And fuck you too, Amash...

[Princess Turandot]

8. The other three 'no' votes..

From the article:

The other three no votes Wednesday came from Reps. Justin Amash of Michigan, an independent who resigned from the Republican Party last July over differences with the president, and two other conservatives, GOP Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Ted Yoho of Florida.

The Senate has already approved the bill, which heads to the president’s desk 120 years after a House committee first quashed an effort to ban lynching.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Moscow Mitch actually let this go to a vote?

[onenote]

15. It passed the Senate unanimously a year ago on the same day it was introduced.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Texas must be so proud

[Paladin]

16. No more so than Michigan, Kentucky or Florida. (nt)

[LudwigPastorius]

11. Gohmert is the worst of the worst.

Dumb as a bag of hair and loyal to Trump as a slobbering dog.

[yellowdogintexas]

18. My otherwise useless Congresswoman voted in favor

I couldn't believe that she could do the right thing. I guess she has to once in a while

[Initech]

17. *pretends to be shocked*

[area51]

19. Ugh, why am I not surprised?

[raccoon]

20. Had this law been in place in 1964, those who murdered Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney could have been

prosecuted under this law.

from wikipedia:

In 1967, after the state government refused to prosecute, the United States federal government charged eighteen individuals with civil rights violations. Seven were convicted and received relatively minor sentences for their actions. Outrage over the activists' disappearances helped gain passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Chaney,_Goodman,_and_Schwerner