Hawley plays the victim card two years after being the lone “no” on a law protecting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders from hate crimes. (via MaddowBlog)
To be sure, there may yet be evidence to support such a claim, but the investigation has just begun — it’s only been two days since the shooting — and as Attorney General Merrick Garland reminded senators yesterday, the shooter’s motive “hasn’t been identified.”
It appears Hawley isn’t inclined to wait for the factual details to come into sharper focus. NBC NewsSen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Tuesday called on federal law enforcement agencies to investigate the shooting at The Covenant School as a religious hate crime. ... “It is commonplace to call such horrors ‘senseless violence,’” Hawley wrote in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “But properly speaking, that is false.
Capping nearly two weeks of talks between Democrats and Republicans, the Senate approved legislation on Thursday to ramp up law enforcement efforts to better protect the Asian American and Pacific Islander community from hate crimes. The move marks a rare moment of bipartisan unity needed to approve the Senate legislation despite a new political era marked by increasingly bitter party divisions.
Yes, in April 2021, the Senate easily approved new hate crimes legislation. Hawley knew the measure — designed to empower law enforcement to help prevent and investigate hate crimes — would pass with overwhelming bipartisan support, but the far-right Missourian
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