Ep. 54 - Do You Have a Right to Hate? How America Treats Bias-Motivated Crime

Send us Fan Mail Taylor Swift called it: the haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate. Episode 54 of Is This Legal? covers bias-motivated crime in America, from the history of and rationale for hate crime laws as we know them now, to the elements that make an offense go from merely illegal to legally hateful, including real world examples such as the Atlanta massage parlor shootings of this year. With plenty of hypotheticals and thought experiments along the way, attorneys Colin and ...