TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Apr 4, 2017
West Tennessee Republican Congressman David Kustoff filed a bill targeting religious intolerance last week, inspired by recent bomb threats against Jewish community centers, the Commercial Appeal reports. The bill, called the Combating Anti-Semitism Act, would increase the federal penalty for making bomb threats and other threats of violence against community religious centers, and would enable authorities to prosecute such acts as a hate crime.