It really is genuinely shocking, at least to me, even given how awful Abbott is. I wonder if the Feds are thinking about bringing any hate crime or weapons charges. Might be a useless endeavor given how bad the Texas district courts and fifth circuit are.
Does @Jman220 or anyone else know when the feds can bring charges? Like, I remember Dylann Roof got rung up on federal charges (for hate crimes but also some plain murder charges) even though he was a South Carolina resident who committed his crimes in South Carolina; do feds just usually not opt to prosecute state crimes that they would also have federal jurisdiction over? Or are there special circumstances required for feds to have jurisdiction?
If federal charges were possible Iâm sure the Biden admin wouldnât bring them unless they win in November first 
Kyle didnât get fed charges, correct? Maybe this is different since a jury found this guy guilty but Kyle was acquitted?
If they can show the murder was racially motivated (sounds like they probably can), they can bring federal charges. I was wondering if they might do so as well.
A state acquittal does not foreclose a federal charge, however the feds also donât want to bring charges they canât win, and if the state couldnât convict Rittenhouse the feds may have felt they would have trouble convicting as well.
Is that a requirement? Iâd guess itâs trickier when itâs a white dude killing a white dude even if the context of it being a BLM protest provides a racial angle.
Like, Wikipedia says Dylann Roof was (among his many counts) convicted of âUse of a firearm during a crime of violence resulting in death (18 U.S.C. § 924) (9 counts)â, are there extra requirements for someone to get federally charged with that or could the feds, if they wanted, prosecute every (shooting) murder in the country under that law?
Regular murder isnât a federal crime. You need something else that makes it run afoul of federal statutes. Racially motivated is one way to get there.
She has an Australian accent right? Am I the only one hearing this?
WAT? Not even close.
No, I donât think soâŚ
Double jeopardy?
Missouri bill to ban all child marriages runs into resistance from House Republicans
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article288424893.html
âWhy is the government getting involved in peopleâs lives like this?â Van Schoiak said.
But even if the legislation can get past a committee vote, it could still run into some resistance from other Republicans in the House. One of them is Rep. Hardy Billington, a Poplar Bluff Republican. Billington, in an interview with The Star, claimed that the legislation could cause pregnant teenagers to have abortions when they canât get married â even though abortion is already almost entirely banned in Missouri. âMy opinion is that if someone (wants to) get married at 17, and theyâre going to have a baby and they cannot get married, thenâŚchances of abortion are extremely high,â he said.
I read this as 100% confirmation.
A state conviction does not trigger jeopardy for a federal case. Itâs how they got all those southern racist murderers decades later using civil rights prosecutions.
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I knew there was a right wing nutjob fixation on the darien gap but hoo boy the new episode of On the Media dives into this shit and wow