Broad Coalition Opposed to Sessions Hate Crime Amendments
July 20, 2009
The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights released a letter today to Senators urging them to defeat Sen. Sessions' amendments to the hate crimes bill to add the death penalty and to force the Attorney General to create unnecessary regulations. Votes are expected on the Senate floor later today. Call your Senators and tell them to vote no on the Sessions Amendments. The full text of the letter is available in pdf and following the jump...
Continue Reading ►TAKE ACTION: Tell Senate to Defeat Sessions Amendments to Hate Crimes
July 20, 2009
As we told you about over the weekend, today the Senate will take up the Defense Department authorization bill again and three amendments threaten to weaken the Matthew Shepard Hate Crime Prevention Act that the Senate voted to add last week.
Continue Reading ►Senate Should Vote Down Hate Crime Amendments from Sen. Sessions
July 18, 2009
While the Matthew Shepard Act amendment was successfully adopted on Thursday, three other amendments related to hate crimes will be debated on Monday. HRC staff has now reviewed these three last minute amendments from Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and believes that they are unnecessary, unhelpful and should not be adopted. So what are the three amendments?
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