I applaud the Senate for passing the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act

Once the lone objector, @RandPaul's name is now on the #EmmettTill AntiLynching Act, with praise from @CoryBooker > https://t.co/EobwCUOeVZ

— David Catanese (@davecatanese) March 8, 2022

McClatchy reports, “Paul celebrated passage of the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which the Senate cleared by unanimous consent on Monday. But it was he who held up the bill in the spring of 2020, leading to a tense rhetorical exchange with two Black Democrats, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and then-Sen. Kamala Harris of California about the scope of their proposal.

Now Booker is hailing Paul for his work on amending the bill to create 'the bipartisan backing that we have to finally meet this moment and help our nation move forward from some of its darkest chapters.'

Paul’s initial objection to the bill was rooted in language he believed would have led to more minor crimes being characterized as lynching, a heinous act of violence that originated in the Jim Crow South. 'This bill would cheapen the meaning of lynching by defining it so broadly as to include a minor bruise or abrasion,' Paul said on the Senate floor in early June of 2020. 'Our national history of racial terrorism demands more seriousness of us than that.”

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