Rand Paul battles Kamala Harris and Cory Booker on anti-lynching bill

The Senate's foremost contrarian, Rand Paul, clashed with Kamala Harris and Cory Booker on the Senate floor Thursday over Paul's opposition to a popular anti-lynching bill.

The Senate could easily approve the House's bill to make lynching a federal crime and send it to President Donald Trump for his signature. But the Kentucky Republican is demanding changes that he says are needed to ensure lynching charges can't be brought for minor injuries.

Paul said he seeks the changes "not because I take lynching lightly but because I take it seriously. And this legislation does not." Harris was incredulous: "That we would not be taking the issue of lynching seriously is an insult, an insult to Sen. Booker, an insult to Sen. Scott and myself."