More Hate Speech Arrests & Convictions In the Constitution State
The Constitution State, like most states and the federal government, has enacted a patchwork of hate-crime laws that overlap with the thousands of existing federal, state, and local criminal laws. The question is whether these laws serve a legitimate purpose or add another layer of criminal liability to conduct that is already punishable, further expanding an increasingly punitive and regressive criminal justice system of mass incarceration. Unless limits are placed on the growth of the criminal law and the surveillance…
