The effort to bring federal charges has been met with resistance by some career prosecutors who argue the crime doesn’t appear to fall under any federal statutes.
Three months after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Justice Department is weighing how to bring federal charges against the shooter, including under a novel legal theory that it was an anti-Christian hate crime, according to three people familiar with the investigation.
The suspect, Tyler Robinson, is already facing multiple state charges, including an aggravated murder count, and Utah prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty. Robinson’s partner is trans, and authorities have produced text messages from the suspect to his partner saying he was motivated to kill Kirk because he had “enough of his hatred.”
It’s not uncommon for defendants to face both state and federal charges, including for drug-related crimes and domestic terrorist attacks, among other offenses. But the effort to bring federal charges in the Kirk case has been met with resistance by some career prosecutors who have argued that the crime doesn’t appear to fall under any federal statutes, the three people said.
I mean, these people have been saying similar things for decades. They were crying about “being PC” was killing their free speech and was “reverse racism” since the 90s.
Also, I seem to recall the right wing and the Libertarians claiming that “hate crimes” were antithetical to fairness and law and so on, because killing someone or doing other crimes against them was already a crime, but it was “anti-white” if more punishment was doled out for the motivation.
Now these asshats are trying to make this goofy dipshit who almost no one even knew a sooper-dooper Bigly Important Martyr of the Right and trying to call it a “hate crime”?
The conservatives seem to love few things in life, but they definitely love being flaming hypocrites about everything.