>https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/488/text
So after reading this and going to read the current code this definition of lynching is more than just a noose if that is what you all were thinking too?
Would appreciate someone else doing an interpretation.
Here's the specific section from the bill that would become section 250.By plain reading it looks like they are lumping 3 other things together and developing a new definition of lynching.
“Whoever conspires with another person to violate section 245, 247, or 249 of this title or section 901 of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3631) shall be punished in the same manner as a completed violation of such section, except that if the maximum term of imprisonment for such completed violation is less than 10 years, the person may be imprisoned for not more than 10 years.”.
These are the things that jumped out at me.
violate section 245, 247, or 249
THOSE are defined already
18 USC 245: Federally protected activities
http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?hl=false&edition=prelim&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title18-section245&num=0&saved=%7CZ3JhbnVsZWlkOlVTQy1wcmVsaW0tdGl0bGUxOC1jaGFwdGVyMTMtZnJvbnQ%3D%7C%7C%7C0%7Cfalse%7Cprelim
18 USC 247: Damage to religious property; obstruction of persons in the free exercise of religious beliefs
http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?hl=false&edition=prelim&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title18-section247&num=0&saved=%7CZ3JhbnVsZWlkOlVTQy1wcmVsaW0tdGl0bGUxOC1jaGFwdGVyMTMtZnJvbnQ%3D%7C%7C%7C0%7Cfalse%7Cprelim
18 USC 249: Hate crime acts
http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?hl=false&edition=prelim&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title18-section249&num=0&saved=%7CZ3JhbnVsZWlkOlVTQy1wcmVsaW0tdGl0bGUxOC1jaGFwdGVyMTMtZnJvbnQ%3D%7C%7C%7C0%7Cfalse%7Cprelim