Naturally, Obama signed this piece of crap into law:
The law allows a do-over if the Justice Department decides “the verdict or sentence obtained pursuant to State charges left demonstratively unvindicated the Federal interest in eradicating bias-motivated violence.†The idea, as then-Attorney General Janet Reno explained when the law was first proposed, is to “give people the opportunity to have a forum in which justice can be done if it is not done in the state court.â€
Although such serial prosecutions are permitted under the doctrine of “dual sovereignty,†they look an awful lot like double jeopardy, prohibited by the Fifth Amendment. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) nevertheless claims the federal hate crime law upholds “the ideals of our founding fathers,†who evidently were big on punishing people for their beliefs, retrying defendants after they’re acquitted, and letting Congress make a federal case out of anything that attracts its attention.
Fortunately, we know that misogynistic douchebags like Olby aren’t motivated by hatred. That’s just people like Limbaugh.