It’s About Time!
Recently the Congress passed and President Obama signed “The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act” that extends federal hate-crime law to include gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. It also extends the act to cover more activities, strengthens prosecution possibilities and provides funding for prosecution.
Like Maddow said in her report on this, “elections have consequences”. I’ve made it clear several times that I don’t like how Obama is governing in some areas. But credit where credit is due: this bill has been blocked for years now and it’s under the current Congress and President that it was passed and signed into law.