ACLU:

Prosecuting Hate Crimes

Apr 29, 2009

House Roll call 223

Congress 111 Session 1

Passed: 249-175

Vote:

Roll call 223

Votes For:

249

Votes Against:

175

Not Voting:

On April 29, 2009, the House passed the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 (H.R. 1913) by a vote of 249 to 175. The ACLU supported this legislation because it would expand the federal criminal civil rights statute to punish violent acts committed against a person because of his or her sexual orientation, gender identity, gender or disability. It also included important First Amendment free speech and association protections by prohibiting the use of evidence of a person's speech or membership to prove the crime unless the evidence was specifically related to the violent offense. These would be the strongest protections against the misuse of a person's exercise of free speech rights that Congress has ever enacted as part of the federal criminal code.

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Name	Party	State	Vote
Abercrombie, Neil	Democrat	HI	(Yea)
Ackerman, Gary	Democrat	NY	(Yea)
Aderholt, Robert	Republican	AL	(Nay)
Adler, John	Democrat	NJ	(Yea)
Akin, Todd	Republican	MO	(Nay)
Alexander, Rodney	Republican	LA	(Nay)
Altmire, Jason	Democrat	PA	(Yea)
Andrews, Robert	Democrat	NJ	(Yea)
Arcuri, Michael	Democrat	NY	(Yea)
Austria, Stephen	Republican	OH	(Nay)

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