Patrick Leahy actually said...

I hope my good friend and former colleague, John Bellinger, would agree with me that the Avena decision was incorrectly decided.

Leahy expresses his disagreement with the Avena decision.

07/26/2011

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We did pass the Federal hate crime legislation in 1968 in the wake of the assassination of civil rights icon Martin Luther King.

If the States had the capacity to deal with this issue, that's the preferred route.

The legislation has been stalled far too long and it's time to act.

There are States that do not have hate crime statutes.