I would just say, therefore, that when we now carve out a different class of people that may also deserve that kind of protection, we need, and owe it to the American people and to our legal system, to explain why these cases are such, that they're not being adequately prosecuted by State courts.
Leahy emphasizes the need for federal protection for under-prosecuted hate crimes.
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