Originally Posted by rockinbbar
Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Ann Coulter wants Trump to get him Federally prosecuted for violating his victim's constitutional rights.


She would have more luck with that if he had been a representative of government of some sort.

I'm not sure a private individual can violate many Constitutional Rights.

The Constitution protects the people from the federal government (or should...)

If anyone violated the victim's rights, it was the judge.

Hate and bias crimes don't require that the criminal be employed by the government for the Feds to pursue charges if local courts refuse to take action. Seems to me that attacking someone for their political views, or because they were attempting to merely exercise their right of free speech should be counted among hate or bias crimes. It could also be argued that it was race motivated, i.e., anti-white, despite the fact that the attacker was also white. You don't need to be non-white to criminally act on the basis of a hatred of white people. We see it all the time form the left.