What does a BIDEN Presidency look like?

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBY5mlkkLrg

The anti-Trump response.

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc9xsy6MSOE

Bernie has your back Squeeze.

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al-AAN-vBMc

What is the point of this law?

[garbon]

Susan Collins has said she will back Biden's judge nom

[The Brain]

Don't eat and post.

[The Minsky Moment]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al-AAN-vBMc

What is the point of this law?

There already exists a federal hate crime statute, which applies penalties for causing or attempting to cause bodily injury because of actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. 

The Till act adds penalties for conspiracy to commit such offenses.  Thus, it effectively closes a gap whereby certain offenses are categorized and punishable as hate crimes but conspiracies to commit such crimes are treated as ordinary criminal conspiracies with no special enhancements.

[Admiral Yi]

That's all fine and good, but lynching is murder.  Aren't additional penalties for a murder kind of pointless?

[Jacob]

That's all fine and good, but lynching is murder.  Aren't additional penalties for a murder kind of pointless?

How so?

[Admiral Yi]

How so?

In that execution or life imprisonment can't be augmented.

[Sheilbh]

But surely that's not covered by this law - based on MM's description. Conspiracy to murder is, no?

[Jacob]

In that execution or life imprisonment can't be augmented.

Ah. I didn't realize that those were the only two possible sentences for murder.

[grumbler]

In that execution or life imprisonment can't be augmented.

Ah. I didn't realize that those were the only two possible sentences for murder.

Those are maximum penalties, not the only ones. And, in fact, life imprisonment doesn't mean life without parole.

Nor does conspiracy to commit a lynching always result in a lynching.

[The Minsky Moment]

That's all fine and good, but lynching is murder.  Aren't additional penalties for a murder kind of pointless?

That's all fine and good, but lynching is murder.  Aren't additional penalties for a murder kind of pointless?

There's a few things going on here:

1) Conspiracy to commit murder does not necessarily result in a life sentence. 
2) The law allows the Feds to charge a conspiracy crime that otherwise could only be charged under state law.
3) As is often the case, the bill's title is not a precise guide to its content. In this case, the law covers conspiracy to commit any crime that both: A) qualifies as a federal hate crime under the hate crime statute and (B) results in serious bodily injury.  Thus it covers offenses that don't result in death of the victim.

[Admiral Yi]

10-4

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkgp5vsSsxQ

Sarah Palin is running for Congress.