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Trump Makes Animal Cruelty Federal Crime


"I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/us/politics/trump-animal-cruelty-bill.html

Whose going to investigate these crimes? The Deep State Never Trumpers at the FBI?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_Against_Women_Act

The Act passed through Congress with bipartisan support in 1994, clearing the United States House of Representatives by a vote of 235–195 and the Senate by a vote of 61–38, although the following year House Republicans attempted to cut the Act's funding.[2] In the 2000 Supreme Court case United States v. Morrison, a sharply divided Court struck down the VAWA provision allowing women the right to sue their attackers in federal court. By a 5–4 majority, the Court overturned the provision as exceeding the federal government's powers under the Commerce Clause.[3][4]

VAWA was reauthorized by bipartisan majorities in Congress in 2000 and again in December 2005. The Act's 2012 renewal was opposed by conservative Republicans, who objected to extending the Act's protections to same-sex couples and to provisions allowing battered undocumented immigrants to claim temporary visas, but it was reauthorized in 2013, after a long legislative battle. As a result of the United States federal government shutdown of 2018–2019, the Violence Against Women Act expired on December 21, 2018.

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On April 4, 2019, the reauthorization act passed in the House by a vote of 263-158. All Democrats voting joined by 33 Republicans voted for passage. New York Representative Elise Stefanik said Democrats, "...have refused to work with Republicans in a meaningful way," adding, the House bill will do nothing but "collect dust" in the GOP-controlled Senate.The bill has indeed been ignored by the Senate.


What else is new?

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Maybe we should just acknowledge that women are "pets" so they can get the same protections.

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Maybe, since the dems don't want to act in a meaningful way, yes?

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That's because he is an animal!!!

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