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

[TexasTowelie]

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.

The vote was 410-4.

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/

Go, go Louis.

Really, Louis. Just go and don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you!

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1. Normally I would say that Louie

is as dumb as a box of rocks. But that would be patently unfair to boxes of rocks.