IMPORTANT
Senator @RandPaul is the ONLY Senator out 100 Senators delaying and standing against an anti-lynching bill.
How fucking gone do you have to be to obstruct an anti-lynching bill?
This is who the people of Kentucky elected to represent them. https://t.co/dJnFr1RSCA
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) June 4, 2020
(Kidding aside, he wants to tighten the language.)
According to the article, according to Paul, as written the bill could subject a person involved in an altercation that results in minor cuts or bruises to a 10 year sentence. Paul wants to limit it to cases where serious bodily injury, substantial risk of death or extreme physical pain were inflicted. That seems reasonable to me, but I don’t know anything about it other than what’s in the article. Now you could argue that no one would be federally prosecuted for causing minor bruises. But that doesn’t mean the law shouldn’t be written better.
So, what exactly is serious bodily injury? After all, water boarding isn’t torture in the US but it is in every civilized country.
Intent should be sufficient…not its success.
did you actually bother to read past the headline or the tweet?
Yes, but you did not read past the joke. Check out the last line.