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9 Feb 2017, 6:29 pm by Kelly Phillips Erb
Even then, Sessions encountered considerable opposition, including testimony that Sessions made racially offensive remarks, saying that he thought the Ku Klux Klan was “OK until I found out they smoked pot,” a statement Sessions agreed that he made but said was not serious. [read post]
28 Aug 2009, 2:46 pm
The killers were acquitted by all-white juries; in a later civil trial, the City of Greensboro, the Ku Klux Klan, and the American Nazi Party were found liable for violating the marchers' civil rights. [read post]
16 Jan 2007, 10:56 am
Board of Education, or the ignorant who did not know that he had denounced the Ku Klux Klan and, as Solicitor General, had defended the voting rights of African-Americans.I've checked back on found this ILB entry from 2004 when big firms had just begun to take these cases, quoting from a NY Times story headlined "THREATS AND RESPONSES: THE ADVOCATES; Scrappy Group of Lawyers Shows Way for Big Firms. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 3:45 pm
Proving that an attack was motivated by race is easier in situations where the Ku Klux Klan or other hate groups are involved. [read post]
16 Feb 2021, 12:19 pm by Joe Consumer
 And will he support the range of cases that are now being brought, including one just filed by House members for compensatory and punitive damages over violations of the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act? [read post]
20 Dec 2008, 12:14 pm
Among Grant's racial discrimination claims, she said she was referred to as "Nappy Headed Mo" and "Queen Sheba," by co-workers, was often told she worked on "colored people time," and was frightened by one official who routinely made Ku Klux Klan references. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 12:11 pm by Alicia Gathers, National Prison Project
Just as the rest of the country was angry and grief stricken, so were five young Black men in North Carolina who decided to vent their anger and frustration by burning down the Ku Klux Klan meeting house. [read post]
6 Mar 2009, 3:40 am
But we find that Henderson's knowing and willing affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan is such behavior.By contrast, the dissent found no public policy problem with reinstatement. [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]
25 Jun 2018, 3:23 pm
. 'I represented the Ku Klux Klan when I was in that job,' he said. 'My family was not pleased with me, but I said, Look, they have First Amendment rights, too. [read post]
4 Feb 2015, 7:00 am by J. Michael Goodson Law Library
He was impeached with the backing of the nascent Ku Klux Klan in 1870. [read post]
25 Aug 2016, 4:06 pm by Sandy Levinson
  After all, when I successfully represented a member of the Ku Klux Klan being denied his First Amendment rights to march in Austin, Texas, that did not entail that I had to shake his hand. [read post]
13 Apr 2015, 5:00 am by Ben
 Throughout his career, Tuymans has used photographic source material as a basis for his paintings – including images of hospital patients, archive portraits of national socialists and Nazis, Belgian seminarists and Ku Klux Klan leaders.In  C-201/13 Deckmyn v Vandersteen,  itself a reference from Belgium, the Court of Justice of the European Union decided that ‘parody’ is an autonomous concept of EU law and must be understood… [read post]
27 Jul 2015, 5:23 am by Jeff Gamso
 Of course, those crimes are already being tracked, as are groups that encourage them.Research by the Southern Poverty Law Center has found that South Carolina alone is home to six neo-Confederate groups, four white nationalist organizations, two factions of the Ku Klux Klan and three neo-Nazi groups. [read post]
15 Dec 2021, 12:21 pm by Emily Dai
The suit accuses the groups of breaking the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, which was passed to protect Black citizens from violence and intimidation. [read post]
27 Jul 2019, 4:56 am by Vishnu Kannan
Daniel Richman reviewed Charles Lane’s new book, “Freedom’s Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America’s First War on Terror. [read post]
26 Mar 2019, 5:46 pm
 Anyway, here is Judge Hirsch's latest Constitutional Calendar missive:             The Enforcement Acts of 1870 were intended to empower federal law enforcement and the federal courts to combat the activities of the Ku-Klux Klan and like-kind organizations. [read post]
19 Feb 2018, 2:53 pm by Lou M
Damore does not refer to supervisors as members of the Ku Klux Klan, he does not direct sexually abusive remarks to individual employees, or identify named employees as homosexuals. [read post]