Saturday, January 21, 2023

How Sheila Jackson Lee's "white supremacy" bill will work - Bookworm Room

How Sheila Jackson Lee's "white supremacy" bill will work - Bookworm Room
  • Democrats are drooling over the possibility of criminalizing any speech with which they disagree — and they’ll do it, too, if voters don’t deal them a stunning political loss.
"Rep. Sheila Jackson (D-TX; Yale BA; University of Virginia Law School JD) has floated a bill controlling speech with which she disagrees. 
It’s called the “Leading Against White Supremacy Act” and is intended to make expressions of “white supremacy” a federal crime. 
Usefully (for her purposes), Jackson Lee does not define “white supremacy.”
Instead, the act opens with at tautology:

A person engages in a white supremacy inspired hate crime when white supremacy ideology has motivated the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of actions that constituted a crime or were undertaken in furtherance of activity that, if effectuated, would have constituted a crime...

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