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Hate crime bill introduced in Wyoming, one of three states without such laws By Erin Donaghue
March 3, 2021 / 11:36 AM / CBS News
Wyoming lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a bill aimed at combating hate crimes in the state, one of three remaining with no laws against bias-motivated crimes on its books. The move comes after a push by advocates in the state where gay college student Matthew Shepard was killed in 1998.
More than two decades later, Wyoming remains without the law even though the 2009 federal anti-hate crime law bears Shepard s name. A state hate crime bill narrowly failed to pass the legislature the year after Shepard s killing, and several more attempts to introduce bills since then have failed to gain traction, according to a report on hate crimes in Wyoming issued by an advisory committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
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“I think that 2021, it is a year of hope,” Clarke told
theGrio in an exclusive interview.
Clarke, a longtime champion of civil rights, is President Joe Biden‘s pick to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice and, if confirmed, would be the first Black woman in history to serve in the role.
Lani Guinier was the first Black woman to be nominated to the post by former President Bill Clinton in 1993. However, Clinton withdrew the nomination following a campaign against Guinier fueled by conservatives who painted her as radical.