Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks out for trans hate crime protections
Source: LGBTQ Nation
By Jeff Taylor · Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in a statement in conjunction with the sentencing of the first person convicted on federal hate crime charges for the killing of a transgender person, said the Justice Department, under his leadership, will work to vindicate the rights of those individuals who are affected by bias motivated crimes.
Joshua Vallum was sentenced to 49 years in prison for the 2015 murder of a 17 year-old transgender girl, Mercedes Williamson.
LGBTQ rights advocates had worried, with some good reason, that federal hate crime laws would be ignored under the Trump administration with Sessions at the helm. Sessions voted against hate crime protections as a senator, saying the law was overly broad and arguing that he thought it unnecessary to include further protections for LGBTQ people.
During his confirmation hearings to become Attorney General, he assured his fellow senators that they can be sure I will enforce the laws, but doubts remained.
Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/05/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-speaks-trans-hate-crime-protections/
William769
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(15,679 posts)jmowreader
(50,601 posts)Does this mean he will protect the rights of LGBTQ people not to be murdered and assaulted, or the rights of Christians to defend God's Laws especially Leviticus 20.13 which says to kill all the gay people you see?
LiberalArkie
(15,739 posts)Sounds like he wants to vindicate those individuals who were found guilty and punished by bias motivated criminal laws.
chowder66
(9,108 posts)that quote doesn't make sense otherwise; unless, he has had a change of heart which I find hard to believe but believe I might if it turns out that he means to vindicate the lgbtq victims.
Very confusing.