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31 Mar 2020, 9:40 am by Eugene Volokh
First, for the students attending that class, please know you have my most sincere, heart-felt apology for the pain Professor Curtis caused many of you when he read aloud the footnote in Brandenburg detailing racist statements made at a Ku Klux Klan rally, which included the most offensive word in the American language — the n-word. [read post]
25 Mar 2020, 3:29 am by SHG
First, for the students attending that class, please know you have my most sincere, heart-felt apology for the pain Professor Curtis caused many of you when he read aloud the footnote in Brandenburg detailing racist statements made at a Ku Klux Klan rally, which included the most offensive word in the American language — the n-word. [read post]
15 Mar 2020, 7:00 am by Eric Woods
Daniel Byman *** The Oct. 9 attack on a synagogue in Halle, Germany, highlights terrorists’ growing affinity for homemade firearms as a means for leaderless resistance, a decentralized strategy of guerrilla warfare popularized by Ku Klux Klan member Louis Beam. [read post]
13 Mar 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Lee statue in the middle of Charlottesville was a gift funded by private donations, erected by whites in a whites-only park, and dedicated at a time when the Ku Klux Klan, a  paramilitary terrorist organization with deep ties to the ruling class, marched through black neighborhoods. [read post]
11 Mar 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Although it is plain that the players were exercising their First Amendment rights, both existing First Amendment doctrine and common sense makes clear that there is no constitutional bar to government officials criticizing the constitutionally protected speech of others.[15] That American free speech doctrine protects neo-Nazis,[16] the Ku Klux Klan,[17] advocates of sexual violence,[18] puppy torturers,[19] and virulent homophobes[20] is no impediment to public officials… [read post]
10 Mar 2020, 9:10 am by Tom Smith
Jerry Thompson of the Nashville Tennessean infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan to provide a first-person account of its racist practices and beliefs. [read post]
17 Jan 2020, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Since the Ku Klux Klan presence in Texas was strong, it was too dangerous to sustain an interracial marriage there, so the couple moved to Chicago in 1873. [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 7:43 am by Cassandra Maas
In the complaint, Gardner claimed that the named defendants engaged in behavior that violated the Ku Klux Klan Act and the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution. [read post]
14 Dec 2019, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The volatile social environment of the early 20th Century contributed to a renaissance of the Ku Klux Klan after 1915. [read post]
4 Dec 2019, 12:03 am by Steve Lubet
Martin Luther King Jr. to the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
30 Nov 2019, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Some of those same individuals then tried to merge their group with the Ku Klux Klan, but the merger never took place. [read post]
28 Nov 2019, 9:28 am by Tom Smith
In a truly shocking development, the fast-food chain even funded the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which is notorious for slandering conservative and Christian organizations by calling them "hate groups" on par with the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
26 Nov 2019, 2:19 pm by Jay Stanley
Court of Appeals, which upheld New York’s law in a case involving the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
25 Nov 2019, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Simmons declared himself the Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
5 Nov 2019, 1:16 pm by Joe Consumer
  In other words, anyone volunteering for a group like the Ku Klux Klan, let’s say – which is a non-profit organization – cannot be insulated from liability under federal law. [read post]
25 Oct 2019, 2:00 am by Christopher Tyner
  At a “Death to the Klan” march in 1979, members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party fired upon anti-Klan demonstrators, leaving five people dead and six people wounded. [read post]
20 Oct 2019, 4:49 am
Killen, (born 1938), American politicianWilliam Wilson Killen (1860–1939), Australian politicianClicking through on the American names, I see that the criminal, Edgar Ray Killen, is known to me through the crime:Edgar Ray Killen (January 17, 1925 – January 11, 2018) was a Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964. [read post]
18 Oct 2019, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
 The second case involved defending the right of the Ku Klux Klan to march in Austin, Texas, when the City Council, no doubt reflecting the views of a majority of their constituents, attempted to block the march—a protest against immigration—by evoking the undoubtedly dreadful history of the Klan in American history. [read post]
14 Oct 2019, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
The white supremacist violence recalled that of the Ku Klux Klan of a century ago, now overlaid with 21st century paramilitary weaponry. [read post]