AdvertisementLegislation To Make Lynching A Federal Crime Clears Historic Hurdle In CongressDecember 21, 2018Cat SchuknechtfacebookEmailSen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., listens to testimony at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in September. Harris, along with Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Tim Scott, R-S.C., proposed the anti-lynching bill passed by the Senate on Wednesday. (Getty Images)