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11 Jun 2019, 6:29 pm by Tom Smith
Hawley objected to a legal brief in which Bogren, representing the city, compared the situation to a business owned by a member of the Ku Klux Klan member refusing to serve African Americans and citing religious liberty as a justification. [read post]
22 May 2009, 9:30 am
Four years ago, the Ku Klux Klan won the right to participate in the Missouri Adopt-a-Highway program, prevailing in a Skokie-like First Amendment case. [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 11:13 am by Tom Smith
Sanger supported black eugenics, a racist attitude toward black and other minority babies; an elitist attitude toward those she regarded as “the feeble minded;" speaking at rallies of Ku Klux Klan women; and communications with Hitler sympathizers. [read post]
10 Jul 2020, 11:54 am by Tom Smith
Yes, abortion proponents concede, Sanger spoke at a Ku Klux Klan rally, carried on friendly correspondence with segregationists, used the “n” word, and described herself as “mainly responsible for arousing interest in the negro programme” targeting African American procreation. [read post]
13 Aug 2017, 4:59 pm by Tom Smith
Saturday's chaos erupted around what is believed to be the largest group of white nationalists to come together in a decade - more than 1,000 neo-Nazis, skinheads and Ku Klux Klan members who descended on the city of Charlottesville to "take America back" by rallying against plans to remove a confederate statue. [read post]
12 Nov 2008, 4:12 pm
On Tuesday, eight people were arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of an Oklahoma woman during what is believed to be a Ku Klux Klan initiation. [read post]
19 Nov 2020, 10:11 am by Gerard Magliocca
In the First Ku Klux Klan Act, Congress provided that actions brought to enforce Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment "shall take precedence of all other cases on the docket of the court to which it is made returnable, and shall not be continued unless for cause proved to the satisfaction of the court. [read post]
27 Sep 2006, 8:40 am
The Ku Klux Klan rallying in support of a black man's execution in Texas. [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 10:53 am by Mark Merenda
Today's post is part two of SmartTalk, a podcast in which I chat with estate planning attorney Victor Medina about lawyer-entrepreneurship, managed risk, voodoo, peer pressure, failing faster, the Ku Klux Klan, Victor's paranoia, microfiche, unsolved murders, how Google changed Mark's life, what Americans do at night, The California Switchblade, clicks and conversions, the uses of video, the power of "new", and the lizard brain. [read post]
17 Jun 2007, 2:19 pm
Margaret Burnham, Northeastern, has an excellent guest post on Jurist about the on-going trial of James Seale for the murder of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Thomas Moore, both 19 years old, by members of the Ku Klux Klan, in Mississippi in 1964. [read post]
3 Apr 2011, 1:47 pm by Anders Walker
For the past few years, I've spent a lot of time trying to recover the vigilante horror of the Ku Klux Klan, using it to flag the virulent racism that characterized the South at the [read post]
12 Apr 2007, 1:51 pm
[JURIST] The Mississippi Supreme Court [official website] Thursday upheld [opinion, PDF] the manslaughter convictions of former Ku Klux Klan organizer Edgar Ray Killen [Wikipedia profile]. [read post]
6 Feb 2007, 10:16 am
[JURIST] The Ku Klux Klan [JURIST news archive] is experiencing "a surprising and troubling resurgence" largely on the issue of Hispanic immigration, according to a report [summary text] released [press release] Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) [advocacy website]. [read post]
17 Aug 2005, 2:42 am
[JURIST] Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood [official profile] is seeking to revoke the bail of convicted murderer and former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen [JURIST news archives] because of pre-trial death threats made by his brother. [read post]
11 Jul 2006, 6:56 am
[JURIST] A lawyer representing one of 17 Canadians arrested on terror charges [JURIST report] in June argued Monday in an Ontario court that Canada's anti-terror legislation [Canada DOJ backgrounder] discriminates because it focuses only on "brown" Muslim and Arab groups and excludes "white" groups such as the Ku Klux Klan [Wikipedia backgrounder]. [read post]
21 May 2010, 4:42 am by Mary L. Dudziak
This spring, Thomas Russell, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, posted a paper: `Keep the Negroes Out of Most Classes Where There Are a Large Number of Girls': The Unseen Power of the Ku Klux Klan and Standardized Testing at The University of Texas, 1899-1999. [read post]