Federal hate crimes laws, like those under which the alleged shooter in yesterday's attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue has been indicted,
lacked real teeth until 2009. Its analog in Pennsylvania, the Ethnic Intimidation Act, was similarly hanstrung earlier in its existence.
Call me partisan if you like, but I find it salient that in both these cases the Democratic Party had a sgnificant degree of control of the legislative bodies in question. In fact, regarding the Federal government, Democrats took over the House during the 2006 midterms, and retained control not only of it but of the Senate from Jan. 2007 to Jan. 2011.
Ergo, midterms can be critically important. Ergo, vote on November 6.
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