Jeff Sessions, Social Justice Warrior

Everything you didn’t know about his 2009 Soldiers Amendment

On July 20, 2009, the Matthew Shepherd and James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA) was being debated on the Senate floor. After making standard Congressional small talk, Jeffrey Sessions of Alabama introduced Amendment 1616 to the proposed HCPA, what he called “The Soldiers Amendment.”

It is distinct from the hate crimes legislation we have been dis…