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28 Jul 2019, 11:00 pm
In 1961 Johnson found that both the Ku Klux Klan and the Montgomery police department were beating and harassing Freedom Riders who were attempting to integrate bus travel in the south. [read post]
26 Aug 2021, 1:13 pm by Christiana Wayne
Stone Jr. and others.The suit cites the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act which protects proceedings of Congress from violent conspiracies. [read post]
29 Feb 2016, 12:37 pm by Lovechilde
Most likely hurt and disappointed that neither of them were endorsed by David Duke, the former KKK Grand Wizard himself, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz both condemned Donald Trump for not immediately disavowing Duke and the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 12:00 pm
The rise of the Ku Klux Klan and myriad other forces of oppression are illustrated in glass cases that hold hateful regalia and other artifacts of subjugation. [read post]
25 Oct 2021, 10:13 am by Emily Dai
The lawsuit, filed by nine Charlottesville residents, uses a Reconstruction-era statute designed to protect newly emancipated Black people from violence by the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
25 Aug 2016, 3:44 pm by Lovechilde
They only dropped him under pressure.When asked in a nationally televised interview whether he would disavow the support of David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, Trump wouldn’t do it. [read post]
6 Jun 2019, 7:45 am
And we have advocated for the First Amendment rights of Ku Klux Klan members, flag-burners, and Nazis. [read post]
11 Oct 2016, 10:54 am by Melvin Small
If assimilation had triumphed, how do we account for the restrictive immigration laws of 1924 and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan during that decade? [read post]
19 Jan 2017, 8:00 am by Daniel Perlman
” The defendants were members of the Ku Klux Klan There have been cases when federal civil rights laws have been used successfully for prosecutions but they are quite unusual, though, as we shall see. [read post]
2 Jun 2022, 9:19 am by Eugene Volokh
Rutledge, the Supreme Court discussed whether another provision of the Ku Klux Klan Act, § 1985(2), is subjected to the … requirement that the pleadings include allegations of racial animus. [read post]
8 Jan 2024, 6:00 am by Bruce Hoffman
Grant created the Department of Justice specifically to counter-far-right terrorism from the Ku Klux Klan and other violent groups active in post-Civil War southern states. [read post]
29 Aug 2023, 2:21 pm by Eugene Volokh
Congress passed the Support-or-Advocacy Clause in the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. [read post]
27 Jan 2021, 4:03 pm by Michel-Adrien
Experts differ on Brandenburg impact (ABA Journal, January 14, 2021): "Could a 1969 case involving a Ku Klux Klan leader protect President Donald Trump from incitement charges in connection with the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. [read post]
15 May 2015, 10:18 am by Kali Borkoski
Next, in the 1880s members of the Ku Klux Klan were punished, and there was strong agreement among members of the Court that voting rights for blacks should be upheld, which makes very little sense under the view that the Court’s jurisprudence was meant to block Reconstruction. [read post]
” In a notable reference following the violence on Capitol Hill encouraged by President Trump Wednesday morning, just before the crowd marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and violently disrupted the formal Congressional counting of electoral votes, Garland quoted historian Ron Chernow, who wrote, “The new Justice Department would forge its identity in the battle to slay the first incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan and its offshoots. [read post]
10 Feb 2022, 4:16 am by JURIST Staff
Bill C-229 would target symbols such as the Nazi Swastika, the Ku Klux Klan’s insignia, and the Confederate flag. [read post]
2 Jul 2019, 8:24 pm by Eugene Volokh
" The design — often called the "Betsy Ross" flag, though it's not clear the 18th century upholsterer actually made it — has been appropriated by extremist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the "militia movement" in recent years. [read post]
10 Mar 2008, 7:05 pm
The topic of alcohol in Indiana actually has a fascinating history, which intertwines with the Civil War, the early roots of the political parties, splits between religious denominations, fights between the "wets" and the "drys," and the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]