The effort to bring federal charges has been met with resistance by some career prosecutors who argue the crime doesn’t appear to fall under any federal statutes.
Three months after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Justice Department is weighing how to bring federal charges against the shooter, including under a novel legal theory that it was an anti-Christian hate crime, according to three people familiar with the investigation.
The suspect, Tyler Robinson, is already facing multiple state charges, including an aggravated murder count, and Utah prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty. Robinson’s partner is trans, and authorities have produced text messages from the suspect to his partner saying he was motivated to kill Kirk because he had “enough of his hatred.”
It’s not uncommon for defendants to face both state and federal charges, including for drug-related crimes and domestic terrorist attacks, among other offenses. But the effort to bring federal charges in the Kirk case has been met with resistance by some career prosecutors who have argued that the crime doesn’t appear to fall under any federal statutes, the three people said.
Following a fraudster who wrote his own scriptures in the 18th century is a fairly extreme deviation from the mainstream. I mean, OK, William Blake wrote his own scriptures too, almost a century before that, but he was self-aware and wasn’t a con artist who claimed he could find gold using a magic stone in a hat.
I mean, can I just say I follow the Jefferson Bible, am I a Christian if I do that?
Yes?
No?
Let me guess:
A bunch of different Christians will disagree about that!
Today, those people are called “red letter xtians”, as far as I know. Jefferson was way ahead of the curve, but also probably one of the first who was able to do such “heretical” things like that, given the Inquisition was still going on during his lifetime, but he was living in a free country.