{"id":856284,"date":"2020-02-27T14:36:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T20:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=856284"},"modified":"2020-02-28T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T20:36:09","slug":"gohmert-votes-against-anti-lynching-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=856284","title":{"rendered":"Gohmert Votes Against Anti-Lynching Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"WASHINGTON, D.C. — East Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert was one of only four votes against a bill to make lynching a federal hate crime. He says he couldn’t support a ten-year prison term for lynching as outlined in the bill. Gohmert said, “That’s ridiculous. First of all, I have trouble with the federal nexus of…lynching. I’d rather — like in the James Byrd case, I preferred those defendants be tried under Texas capital murder (statute) rather than under federal hate crimes law.” Two of Byrd’s killers received the death penalty. The other received a life sentence in the notorious 1998 Jasper dragging death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, D.C. — East Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert was one of only four votes against a bill to make lynching a federal hate crime. He says he couldn’t support a ten-year prison term for lynching as outlined in the bill. Gohmert said, “That’s ridiculous. First of all, I have trouble with the federal nexus of…lynching. … Continue reading Gohmert Votes Against Anti-Lynching Bill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":856285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 07:55:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=856284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856367,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856284\/revisions\/856367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/856285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=856284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=856284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=856284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}