Section 245 of Title 18, U.S. Code, is the civil rights provision that the Justice Department relies on for its extravagant theory that state crimes can be turned into federal crimes by declaring that some protected federal activity is ongoing. I can’t help but notice that it is the same statute that protects voters and poll-watchers from intimidation by the likes of the New Black Panther Party.
Why is the Justice Department using a statute so dubiously to invent new federal crimes while ignoring an obvious violation of the very same statute?
Need I ask?