Stop Hate Crimes Act of 2025
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2025-06-26 — Stop Hate Crimes Act of 2025: HR4187 (119th Congress) introduced and referred to the House Judiciary Committee; would amend 18 U.S.C. § 249 so that a victim’s actual or perceived protected characteristic need only be a contributory motivating factor for the offense, replacing the but-for causation standard courts have applied to federal hate-crime prosecutions since 2014. (novelty: 3)