Native Americans protest before the Minnesota Vikings and Washington game in Minneapolis. (Photo by Adam Bettcher/Getty Images)

Photo by Adam Bettcher/Getty Images.

Once again, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is doing whatever she can to try and get the Washington football team to change their name and mascot. Last year, it was by introducing a bill that would revoke the NFL’s tax-exempt status if the team continues to use its name (the NFL ended up giving it up voluntarily because haha the NFL is basically a money tree), and this year, it’s by threatening to strip them of antitrust protection.

Under the bill, the NFL would no longer receive exemption from federal antitrust laws so long as the Washington football team continues to use their name and mascot. Norton’s bill isn’t just limited to Washington’s professional football team, it would apply to any professional sports league that has a team using the name “R******s.”

“The National Football League, a multi-billion dollar industry, and the Washington football team should not be benefitting financially from federal antitrust exemptions while they continue to promote a disparaging moniker that has been found by legal authorities to be a racial slur,” Norton said in a statement. “The name of the nation’s capital, Washington, should always be associated with pride, not with a moniker that mocks and insults Native Americans.”

This is just the latest stunt in a long, long line of backdoor legal—albeit inaffective—ways in which politicians have tried to force the team to change its name. Team owner Dan Snyder has said that he’ll “NEVER” change the team’s name, but Norton seems to disagree.

“Changing the name is not a question of if, but when,” Norton said. “The sooner Commissioner Roger Goodell and the league’s 29 other team owners get on the right side of the law and of history and use their leadership, the sooner Washington’s football team will cease being an embarrassment to the league and to the country.”