Last week, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, reintroduced proposed legislation that would punish white supremacists whose hateful rhetoric inspires violence.
And members of the conservative movement — to which many violent white supremacists belong and openly associate — are predictably outraged.
The Leading Against White Supremacy Act is Jackson Lee’s fitting response to top law enforcement officials testifying in 2021 that white supremacists pose the biggest threat to U.S. national security.
Jackson Lee’s proposed bill, which she also introduced last summer, would “expand the scope” of hate crimes to include people whose white supremacist rhetoric can be directly linked to acts of violence. It would punish people who partake in a “conspiracy to engage in white supremacist hate crimes.” And it defines a conspiracy as crimes involving two or more people who “engaged in the planning, development, preparation, or perpetration of a white supremacy inspired hate…
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