'The best way to demonstrate that the federal government is serious about terrorism by white nationalists...is for the Justice Department and the FBI to make full use of the ample authority they already possess.' (via latimesopinion)
by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School notes that “there are already dozens of federal statutes carrying severe penalties that are available to investigators and prosecutors pursuing these crimes.”
For example, acts of domestic terrorism motivated by racial or religious hatred can be prosecuted under the federal hate-crime statute and other laws., accused in the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 people, was charged by the Justice Department with hate crimes as well as other offenses including 11 counts of “obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs resulting in death,” a crime that can lead to the death penalty.
Although federal law lacks a catchall criminal offense of domestic terrorism, Robert Chesney of the University of Texas Law School
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