The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties is holding a hearing the recent surge of violence against Asian-Americans amid COVID-19 on Thursday at 10 a.m. ET. The session comes days after eight people, six of whom were women of Asian descent, were fatally shot in three spas in the Atlanta area.
Poor Garland certainly has a lot on his plate. The first 4 years are going to take a toll on him because heāll be a target of constant right-wing attacks much like Eric Holder was.
You can already see the āratsā proclaiming that the āslursā they uttered had NOTHING to do with the attacks on Asians. Cāmon nowā¦rotten bastids.
The thing is that Asians-Americans would normally gravitate to a conservative, business friendly party, like the GOP used to pretend to be. But now conservatism is all about white supremacy, guns, minority bashing and Christian dominionism.
āFind those who engage in hate of all forms and punish the absolute hell out of them, But donāt go around policing thought,ā he said.
Perhaps Rep. Roy would like to pitch his mind to mind communications device.
Otherwise, heās just pushing a Catch - 22 that makes the prosecution of āhate crimesā impossible.
Hate can only be identified in conjunction with action by ascertaining the perpetratorās state of mind, something thatās currently quite impossible if we arenāt going to rely on the perpetrators communications of their probable motivation.
Then, maybe thatās his goal.
I canāt immediately recall which, but I believe itās either Texas or Florida that holds the distinction in a report by the Innocence Project for executing the highest number of citizens for crimes they were ultimately proven not to have committed.
So that line about taking ājustice seriouslyā is total and complete bullshit.
I think itās Texas. Under Rick āoopsā Perry there were a few cases of innocent people being executed. During the W. Bush era as governor he signed over 150 death warrants including Karla Fay Tuckers that he chuckled over. I think a few of them were innocent or at the very least were deprived a fair trial.