The first amendment isn't the problem. These are radicalized terrorists. I'm sure that there's legal infrastructure in place to deal with terrorism when white supremacists are the terrorists.
NYS has its own domestic terrorism law but the Republicans in Congress rejected a proposed bill to pass one. Bill Barr said there were technical concerns but refused to divulge what those "technicalities" were. Why not divulge the concerns so the bill could have been tweaked hmmm......
Republican Senators Shut Down Domestic Terrorism Bill Designed To Tackle White Supremacy Over 'Technical Concerns'
Republican leaders in the Senate have
shut down a bill that would create a domestic terrorism law, something civil rights leaders and federal authorities have begged the government to create, according to HuffPost.
The United States has no domestic terrorism law, making it difficult for federal authorities to levy charges against groups committing acts of terror across the country, particularly white nationalist or white supremacist groups that have been at the center of dozens of recent attacks, as Blavity previously reported.
A recent report from the Department of Homeland Security
called white supremacy "the most persistent and lethal threat in the homeland," and acknowledges the startling expansion of organized white supremacist groups across the country.
But on Friday, Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) blocked Senator Dick Durbin from advancing his "Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act." Johnson said on the senate floor that he was following orders from the Department of Justice to block the bill. He said the domestic terrorism bill would somehow seriously impede their ability to work in the domestic terrorism space.
A spokesman for the Justice Department, which is headed by controversial Attorney General Bill Barr, told HuffPost that they had "technical concerns" about the bill, but would not explain what the concerns are.
In a statement on his website, Durbin
slammed President Donald Trump and senior Republicans for their repeated inability to separate themselves from white nationalism and white supremacist terrorism.
Durbin cited the recent controversy over Trump
telling members of a white nationalist group to "stand back and stand by" during a presidential debate last week.
The United States has no domestic terrorism law on the books, and Republicans stopped an effort to create one this week.
blavity.com