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wondering if maybe even the TDS crowd can grudgingly appreciate this one.
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President Trump signed a bipartisan bill into law Monday, making animal cruelty a federal crime. The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, or PACT Act, bans abusive behavior including crushing, burning, drowning, suffocating, impaling and other bodily injury toward any non-human mammals, birds, reptiles or amphibians.
The PACT Act, introduced in January by Democratic Florida Congressman Ted Deutch and his Republican colleague, Vern Buchanan, expands the Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act, which was passed by Congress in 2010 and made the creation and distribution of animal crushing videos illegal. However, the new act closes a loophole by prohibiting the underlying acts of animal abuse, according to the office of Congressman Deutch.
I approve just about any law that prevents cruelty and torture of animals. It will be interesting to see if this survives constitutional scrutiny however. I've heard of PACT but haven't read it so I'm not sure how the federal government has established its ability to adopt a law like this. It seems to fall in the jurisdiction of the separate states. I can understnad the previous law, which addressed the distribution of videos, therefore making it involved with interstate commerce. I certainly hope this sticks, we'll see. I'll have to take a peek and see how they established fedral jurisdiction for this.
It's unconstitutional, and I do not approve. If the government stuck to the Constitution, it wouldn't much matter whether Trump or someone else were President because each state would be making its own decisions, and everyone could choose to live with like-minded people without having to worry about being oppressed by "crazy" people in other states.
I'm against animal cruelty but am against more federal crimes. I don't want the federal government enforcing criminal laws. This should be a state matter.
Does this mean that hunting or slaughtering animals for food can be a felony?
No. Our laws already define animal cruelty; it has nothing to do hunting food.
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