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Obama signs hate crimes bill into law
CAROL E. LEE
Politico
Thursday, Oct 29th, 2009
President Barack Obama signed expanded hate crimes
legislation into law Wednesday, drawing praise from his attorney
general and a tearful response from Judy Shepard, the mother
of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old Wyoming college student who
was killed in 1998 because he was gay.
“After more than a decade of opposition and delay, we’ve
passed inclusive hate crimes legislation to help protect our
citizens from violence based on what they look like, who they
love, how they pray or who they are,” Obama said at an
East Room signing ceremony for the legislation, which was part
of the 2010 defense appropriations bill.
Obama also lauded the work that the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.),
whose widow and children were in the audience, did over the
years on the hate crimes legislation.
As she left the ceremony, Vicki Kennedy said of her late husband:
“I imagine that he’s smiling.”
Attorney General Eric Holder called the new law “the
next great civil rights bill.”
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