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Senate Leader Will Repropose Federal Polygamy Task Force

By Howard M. Friedman

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Last Friday, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that he would reintroduce legislation this session to set up a federal task force to focus on polygamy-related crime. According to Saturday's Salt Lake Tribune, Reid also said he will urge new Attorney General Eric Holder to take action against crime in polygamous communities. In connection with similar proposals last year by Reid, the Senate Judiciary Committee in July held hearings titled "Crimes Associated with Polygamy: The Need for a Coordinated State and Federal Response." (Witness list with link to webcast of hearing.) Reid is a Democrat from Nevada and a convert to Mormonism.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on March 30, 2009 (boomark / email).

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