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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Tue May 16, 2017, 12:36 PM May 2017

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/

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks out for trans hate crime protections (Original Post) DonViejo May 2017 OP

I'm not buying what he's selling. William769 May 2017 #1

Sessions needs to slime his way back under the leaf from which he came -- fucking slug! KPN May 2017 #2

Uhh... jmowreader May 2017 #3

vindicate the rights of those individuals who are affected by bias motivated crimes LiberalArkie May 2017 #4

That's how I read it considering he has abolished or tried to abolish lgbtq rights. chowder66 May 2017 #5

William769

(55,147 posts)

1. I'm not buying what he's selling.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue May 16, 2017, 12:44 PM

May 2017

KPN

(15,649 posts)

2. Sessions needs to slime his way back under the leaf from which he came -- fucking slug!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue May 16, 2017, 12:45 PM

May 2017

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)

3. Uhh...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue May 16, 2017, 12:55 PM

May 2017

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

(15,728 posts)

4. vindicate the rights of those individuals who are affected by bias motivated crimes

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Tue May 16, 2017, 01:03 PM

May 2017

Sounds like he wants to vindicate those individuals who were found guilty and punished by bias motivated criminal laws.

chowder66

(9,075 posts)

5. That's how I read it considering he has abolished or tried to abolish lgbtq rights.

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #4)

Tue May 16, 2017, 01:16 PM

May 2017

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.

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