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25 Jan 2023, 5:59 am by Menachem Z. Rosensaft
(Editor’s note: This article is published in conjunction with this week’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed each year on Jan. 27 to commemorate the day in 1945 when Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz.) [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 5:39 am
Somewhat implausibly, Pickering was attacked by liberal interest groups for supposed racial insensitivity, despite the fact that in 1964 he had left the Democratic Party over its racism to help found the Mississippi Republican Party and in his early career as a prosecutor worked with the FBI to attack the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
9 Nov 2020, 7:06 am by ronaldrichenburg
About 25 years ago, the library of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1   was largely disbanded, with the contents being given to suitable U.K. research libraries, including the Bodleian Law Library which received many items of a legal nature. [read post]
20 Jul 2017, 5:30 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Morgan Kousser of MacLean’s 1994 book on the Ku Klux Klan appears somewhat prescient. [read post]
The rally of the alt-right in Charlottesville, Virginia—a motley crew of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan types and anti-Semites—took many people by surprise. [read post]
29 Nov 2017, 7:18 am by Howard Iken
” Even in the 1940’s and 1950’s, law enforcement openly joined the Ku Klux [read post]
5 Oct 2023, 5:44 am by Eugene Volokh
In Brandenburg, a Ku Klux Klan leader stated to those gathered at a rally, which was covered by media and shown on television, "if our President, our Congress, our Supreme Court, continues to suppress the white, Caucasian race, it's possible that there might have to be some revengeance taken. [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 12:41 pm by Robert Bennett
But the conspiracy counts are brought under provisions of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, an enactment designed to counter the new social and political power of the KKK in the post-bellum South; those claims require that the conspiracy be motivated by some racial or other class-based animus. [read post]
5 May 2017, 6:35 am by Joe May
Both men dressed up as Ku Klux Klan members, wearing white hooded robes, and stood up before the hearing started. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
      Federal: Ex-Lawmakers Face New Scrutiny Over LobbyingThe Hill – Alex Gangitano | Published: 2/12/2019 Critics say former federal lawmakers have been the biggest offenders when it comes to working as lobbyists without formally registering. [read post]
30 Dec 2022, 4:35 pm by INFORRM
§ 1985(1), also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which was aimed at eliminating extra-legal violence committed by white supremacist and vigilante groups as well proscribing conspiracies that, by means of force, intimidation, or threats, prevent federal officers from discharging their duties or accepting or holding office. [read post]
17 Aug 2009, 11:29 pm
As the rhetoric heats over healthcare reform, the swastika has taken center stage. [read post]
2 Jan 2015, 8:30 am by Jim Sedor
The group was the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, founded by David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
26 Sep 2013, 9:35 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I’m delighted to report that the new UCLA First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic has filed its first brief, on behalf of the Cato Institute, in Edwards v. [read post]
7 Nov 2022, 1:12 pm by Howard M. Wasserman
Section 1983, enacted as Section 1 of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, authorizes private suits against any person acting under color of state law who deprives the plaintiff of rights “secured by the Constitution and laws. [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 6:43 am by Joe May
Swelling numbers of Ku Klux Klan chapters and black separatist groups drove last year’s surge, though organizations classified as anti-gay, anti-immigrant, and anti-Muslim saw small increases, too. [read post]
9 Nov 2020, 7:06 am by ronaldrichenburg
By Ronald Richenburg About 25 years ago, the library of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1   was largely disbanded, with the contents being given to suitable U.K. research libraries, including the Bodleian Law Library which received many items of a legal nature. [read post]
For the same reason the Ku Klux Klan, a racist organization whose history is drenched in African American blood, is permitted to hold rallies espousing its cause. [read post]
15 Sep 2013, 9:00 pm by Rodger Citron
  (It also inspired the Ku Klux Klan to burn a cross on Stone Mountain in Georgia, reviving an organization that had disbanded after home rule was restored to the South after the Civil War.) [read post]