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18 Jul 2017, 4:05 am by Andrew King
This distinction exists despite the fact the Ku Klux Klan Act was aimed at eliminating state indifference (or more accurately: complicity) in depriving freed blacks their constitutional rights. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 3:15 pm
La frase citada parece salida de alguna proclama perdida del Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
6 Oct 2023, 9:41 am by Eugene Volokh
" The Foundation for Moral Law's brief describes the many ways that New York's law sweeps protected speech — such as a cartoon making fun of the Ku Klux Klan, a meme referring to Donald Trump as the "orange man," and a quote from the Bible disapproving of homosexuality — into its definition of "hateful conduct. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 3:15 pm
La frase citada parece salida de alguna proclama perdida del Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
10 May 2017, 3:45 am by Jim Harper
The opposite end of the ideological spectrum did Butler no favors: the Ku Klux Klan opposed his nomination because he was a Catholic. [read post]
20 Aug 2013, 2:08 am by rhapsodyinbooks
After reconstruction ended, however, the terrorist tactics of the Ku Klux Klan and other groups devoted to the cause of white supremacy effectively prevented any significant voting at all by African-Americans, thus replacing a pre-war three-fifths bonus with a post-Reconstruction bonus of 100 percent of the nonvoting African-Americans. [read post]
20 May 2007, 4:53 pm
So too, people may think that government may not regulate speech unless it can show a clear and present danger, but fail to settle whether this principle is founded in utilitarian or Kantian considerations, and disagree about whether the principle allows government to regulate a particular speech by members of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Both Congress and those in power in the South (many of whom had been Confederates during the Civil War) resisted efforts by Grant to ensure civil equality and to rein in the violence of a new organization, The Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 5:44 pm by Yalitza Ledgister
Michael Donald was brutally beaten and hung on a tree by Ku Klux Klan members in Mobile, Alabama on March 21, 1981. [read post]
3 May 2020, 8:55 pm by Omar Ha-Redeye
Although this decision was subsequently constrained by other decisions, for nearly a century it empowered groups like the Ku Klux Klan to engage in domestic terrorism, especially in vote suppression of Blacks. [read post]
2 Nov 2009, 1:24 pm
  The Court also let stand a ruling permitting prosecutors to charge a Ku Klux Klan member with kidnapping more than 40 years after the alleged crime took place, according to the AP. [read post]
19 Jun 2024, 5:00 am by Yosi Yahoudai
Under pressure from the Ku Klux Klan, the city of Manhattan Beach used its eminent domain authority in 1924 to drive out a seaside resort for Black guests owned by Willa and Charles Bruce, promising to put a park in its place. [read post]
17 Oct 2017, 4:30 am by Daniel Byman
Consider, notionally, an individual suspected of ties to ISIS and one suspected of ties to the Ku Klux Klan (or, turn a molehill group into a mountainous one, substitute Antifa). [read post]
20 Jun 2022, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh
King on Wednesday said that for the Ku Klux Klan to come to Gary, where the population is 85 percent African American, 'gets pretty close to shouting "Fire! [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]
19 Nov 2018, 11:59 am by Howard M. Wasserman
When Congress enacted Section 1983 as part of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, there was no common law tort of malicious prosecution. [read post]
1 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm by John Dean
Like a cancer escaping remission, racism reemerged in America with a vengeance, with its practitioners, promoters and organizers using the internet to invigorate once largely dormant organizations like Ku Klux Klan and the Council of Conservative Citizens, and to create new groups, including online gatherings like the Confederate Pride website, attracting men and women who rejected mainstream American conservatism to embrace white nationalism and white supremacy,… [read post]
25 Jun 2015, 5:01 am
It hailed the rise of the Ku Klux Klan as a sign of southern white society’s recovery from the humiliation and suffering to which the federal government and the northern “carpetbaggers” had subjected it after its defeat in the Civil War. [read post]
1 Sep 2020, 9:09 am by Jonathan Holbrook
In May of this year I wrote a blog post about protesters and demonstrators carrying firearms at their events. [read post]