The legislation was sponsored by U.S. Sen. Cory Booker.
With Vice President Kamala Harris,
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker , and others looking on, Biden affixed his signature at a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House.The bill was named for Emmett Till, a 14-year old boy lynched in 1955, and would classify lynching as a crime under existing federal hate crime statues. Till was abducted and murdered for allegedly looking the wrong way at a white woman while visiting Mississippi in August 1955.
Around 200 anti-lynching bills had been introduced from 1882 to 1986, all of them failing to clear Congress, according to 2019 legislation that“Thank you for never giving up,” Biden said after signing the bill. “No federal law ever expressly prohibited lynching. None. Until today.”, 422-3, in February. Booker and the Senate’s only Black Republican, Tim Scott of South Carolina, introduced the bill in the Senate the same day the House acted.
That measure was sponsored by Booker, Scott and Harris when she was in the Senate. The House, though,When the Senate then voted on the amended legislation in June 2020, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., blocked it. This time around, Paul was a co-sponsor of the Booker bill, along with the only other Democratic Black U.S. senator, Raphael Warnock of Georgia.
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