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Jeff Sessions: Justice Department will prosecute transgender hate crimes

By Kelly Cohen
Published June 29, 2017 2:40pm ET
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Jeff Sessions: Justice Department will prosecute transgender hate crimes
"We have and will continue to enforce hate crime laws aggressively and appropriately where transgendered individuals are victims," Sessions said. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner) | Graeme Jennings/Washington Exami

Attorney General Jeff Sessions promised Thursday that the Department of Justice will continue to prosecute hate crimes against transgender people.

Speaking a hate crime summit Thursday morning in Washington, Sessions said he met with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to discuss murders of transgender people, and promised more action against them.

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