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One of the standoffs that ultimately meant that the Violence Against Women Act disappeared after eighteen years of implementation was over Native American tribal rights. Cantor explicitly refused to back a bill that included expanded jurisdiction for Native American tribes in the prosecution of rape cases. One in three Native American women have been raped or experienced an attempted rape and in 86 percent of rape cases, the perpetrator was someone non-Native. Legislation that would have worked to allow tribal governments to exercise greater authority in prosecuting non-Native American alleged rapists was deemed unacceptable by Rep. Cantor.
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The Political Notebook: And we say goodbye to the Violence Against Women Act…  (via kateoplis)

Fuck you, Eric Cantor. You’re a piece of shit.
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    We don’t need a ‘Violence against women’ act. We need a reliable ‘Violence against people’ act. Gender shouldn’t factor...
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