After 45 days, only one GOP senator has co-sponsored anti-lynching bill
Disgraceful.
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After 45 days, only one GOP senator has co-sponsored anti-lynching bill
By Tommy Christopher -
August 12, 2018
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) struggled to explain why he's the only Republican who has co-sponsored a bill that would make lynching a federal hate crime.
One year after Trump said there were “very fine people” among the white supremacist rioters in Charlottesville, almost every Republican in the Senate has failed to sign on to a bill that would make lynching a federal hate crime.
On Sunday morning’s edition of “Face the Nation,” host Margaret Brennan asked Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), the only black Republican serving in the Senate, why he is the only senator in his party to co-sponsor the anti-lynching bill.
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“There are 26 co-sponsors, including yourself. They’re all Democrats,” Brennan pointed out. “You’re the only Republican.”
“Well, sometimes it’s good to be first,” Scott said, adding that he will keep “looking for ways to bring more folks on board.”
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That’s a stark difference from 2005, when 43 out of 55 Republican senators joined every Democrat in co-sponsoring a weaker resolution apologizing for the Senate’s failure to pass anti-lynching laws.
But since then, Trump’s emergence has made it not only more acceptable, but even a political necessity, for Republicans to cater to a racist base in order to maintain power.
If they had any decency, Senate Republicans would have already flocked to sign on to a bill protecting Americans from white supremacist terror. But it seems they are more interested in siding with Trump and his racist agenda.
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What is wrong with these people? There is nothing controversial about it. Lynching is wrong, period. They are a sick bunch of mofos. 