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27 Dec 2022, 3:08 pm by Eugene Volokh
" Other posts, although not referencing specific students, contained images either depicting, or making light of, Ku Klux Klan violence against Black people. [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 3:11 am by Lyle Denniston
  It ruled that the Wackenhut employees were, in fact, acting officially, because they were carrying out a “fundamentally governmental function.”   It borrowed that concept from decisions in cases based on the old Ku Klux Klan Act’s Section 1983. [read post]
“I’m from a part of the country where people justify the actions of slavery, Ku Klux Klan, and lynching,” Thompson explained. [read post]
19 Dec 2022, 4:00 am by Eric Segall
But the worst of the worst was the following hypothetical asked by, who else, Justice Alito:"If there's a -- a black Santa at the other end of the mall and he doesn't want to have his picture taken with a child who's dressed up in a Ku Klux Klan outfit, that -- that black Santa has to do that? [read post]
19 Jul 2020, 7:01 am by Anna Meier
Currently, Change.org hosts 20 petitions calling for the Ku Klux Klan to be labeled a terrorist organization. [read post]
18 Jun 2021, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  The history of Reconstruction is especially interesting in this regard, inasmuch as many African-Americans agreed with Roger Taney's statement in Dred Scott that an attribute of citizenship was the right to bear arms and that such arms bearing was essential to protect themselves against the terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan and other devotees of white supremacy. [read post]
18 May 2021, 11:13 am by Mark C. Niles
  Section 1983 was originally included in the Civil Rights Act of 1871, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, passed at the height of “Radical Reconstruction,” as a federal judicial enforcement mechanism for the 14th Amendment. [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 4:33 am by Mark Graber
The Enforcement Act of 1870, often known as the First Ku Klux Klan Act, reflected the broad consensus in Congress that states could implement Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment in the absence of federal legislation. [read post]
25 Jun 2013, 12:55 pm by Sara Hutchins Jodka
In Vance, an African-American employee, who worked in BSU's dining service department, filed a complaint with the EEOC in 2006 claiming that she was harassed by co-workers with racial epithets, subjected to references to the Ku Klux Klan and threatened with physical harm under Title VII. [read post]
9 Mar 2018, 12:15 pm
Charles Brandenburg was an avowed racist convicted of “incitement to violence” for holding an Ohio Ku Klux Klan rally in the late 1960s. [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]
28 Jun 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
This withdrawal was the fruit of an 1877 “compromise” with Democrats that elevated a Republican to the presidency at the price of abandoning Black people in the former Confederate states to the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow. [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 7:00 am by Guest Blogger
  Nationally, 1924 marked the debut of race-based national origins quotas as a technique of systematic immigration restriction as well as the return of the Ku Klux Klan to national political prominence. [read post]
25 Aug 2014, 10:36 pm by Old Fox
" The crowd fell into an expectant silence.The Minister continued, "One of you, here among us, has been reporting that I am a member of the dreaded 'Ku Klux Klan.' This, of course, is not true! [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]
17 Jul 2007, 7:06 am
A very modern lynching By DAVID ROSE - More by this author » Last updated at 15:37pm on 14th July 2007 Comments (1) The quaint, Deep South charm of Columbus, Georgia, conceals a hideous truth - it was a crucible of the Ku Klux Klan's lynch mobs. [read post]
9 Apr 2022, 3:01 am by Karl Mihm
Swalwell alleges that the defendants violated federal civil rights laws–including the Ku Klux Klan Act–when they conspired to interfere with the Electoral College Count on Jan 6. [read post]
13 Apr 2021, 9:41 am by Melody McDonald Lanier
Ohio (1969), where the Court ruled that it was perfectly fine for a Ku Klux Klan member to use speech that promoted violence in general, unless the speech directed people to take unlawful action immediately. [read post]