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4 Jun 2024, 3:30 am by jonathanturley
NPR denounced the chant as “vulgar,” while writers at the Washington Post and other newspapers condemned it as offensive; CNN’s John Avalon called it “not patriotic,” while CNN political analyst Joe Lockhart compared it to coded rhetoric from Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and ISIS. [read post]
29 Jul 2022, 5:00 am by jonathanturley
While some activists have previously argued that pro-life views or advertisements like “abortion hurts women” constitute “hate speech,” the Supreme Court has refused to allow such laws as the Ku Klux Klan Act to be used against abortion protesters as being motivated by a “class-based, invidiously discriminatory animus. [read post]
3 Jul 2020, 11:32 pm by David Kopel
According to the Ku Klux Klan, which was powerful in American politics at the time, racial difference obliterated common humanity. [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 9:02 pm by Austin Sarat and Dennis Aftergut
”In March 2016, candidate Trump initially refused to renounce Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke’s endorsement, reversing only under media pressure. [read post]
14 Jul 2016, 11:24 am by Texas Employment Law Letter
To cite just a few of many examples: In Pennsylvania, three employees were fired after they modified their uniforms to look like Ku Klux Klan members. [read post]
26 Feb 2018, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
He organized other black veterans in an attempt to protect the black citizens of Monroe from the very active Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
10 Sep 2020, 6:04 am by Rosalyn Sia Baker-Barnes
” It is a sad truth that women in post 1920s America – black and white alike – had to navigate a maze of laws clogging easy access to the polls – law such as literacy tests and tax assessments – as well tyrannical male officials clandestinely representing the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
13 Nov 2015, 12:58 pm by John Floyd
  It is not a federal offense to support a domestic terrorist organization, as it is a Foreign Terrorist Organization, so the government cannot prosecute the Ku Klux Klan or other anti-government extremists groups as easily it can international terrorists groups and those who support or assist them. [read post]
25 Aug 2020, 9:01 pm by Sherry F. Colb
Some of the most important free speech precedents involved racist and antisemitic plaintiffs hailing from neo-Nazi groups and the Ku Klux Klan (sometimes represented by Jewish lawyers). [read post]
3 Oct 2020, 3:10 pm by Eugene Volokh
Like similar laws enacted during the same era, the law grew out of concerns over the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
24 Nov 2021, 3:32 am by SHG
The jury rejected these arguments under state law, although it hung under federal conspiracy law, the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, for reasons that are unclear. [read post]
9 Jun 2009, 7:19 pm
According to a recent article in The Cincinnati Enquirer, the worm turned and bit the City square on the tukus.The city of Cincinnati violated the civil rights of a West Virginia bank holding company by holding it responsible for apartment buildings it foreclosed on, the bank claimed in a lawsuit Monday.Wesbanco Bank Inc. alleged in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court that the city and two of its building inspectors engaged in a pattern of malicious prosecution against the bank.[...]The lawsuit… [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 4:48 am by SHG
Naturally, cries came from the usual suspects that this proves Black Lives Matter is a hate group, like the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
13 Jun 2010, 4:10 pm by tjsllibrary
Though Black would later be regarded as a champion of civil rights, at the time the talented defense lawyer was only months away from joining the Ku Klux Klan, which held fundraising drives to finance Stephenson’s defense. [read post]
12 Sep 2019, 1:40 pm by Irina Manta
" Trump's rhetoric mirrors the language that fueled the deadly anti-Irish riots of the 1830s and the post-World War I resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
7 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Everyone concedes that Congress expressly created a private right of action in the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, now codified as Section 1983 of Title 42 of the U.S. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 12:04 pm by James Hirsen
… As noted in a publication from the United States Commission on Civil Rights, a prominent supporter of this ban was the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
17 Nov 2016, 6:57 am by Lee E. Berlik
Suppose a columnist publishes an article in a national newspaper in which he writes (falsely) that Trump is a card-carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 12:36 pm by Lyle Denniston
Among the  significant cases that the Court refused to hear, these were the issues at stake: ** A plea, by a Mississippi member of the Ku Klux Klan convicted of a kidnapping of two black youths who later were drowned in 1964, to overturn his conviction because the government waited too long to prosecute him. [read post]