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16 Jan 2007, 10:56 am
Board of Education, or the ignorant who did not know that he had denounced the Ku Klux Klan and, as Solicitor General, had defended the voting rights of African-Americans.I've checked back on found this ILB entry from 2004 when big firms had just begun to take these cases, quoting from a NY Times story headlined "THREATS AND RESPONSES: THE ADVOCATES; Scrappy Group of Lawyers Shows Way for Big Firms. [read post]
21 Dec 2006, 6:01 pm
The two-day meeting drew historical revisionists and such people as David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
12 Dec 2006, 9:00 pm
Late Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black belonged to the Ku Klux Klan when a lawyer in Alabama. [read post]
27 Sep 2006, 8:40 am
The Ku Klux Klan rallying in support of a black man's execution in Texas. [read post]
11 Jul 2006, 6:56 am
[JURIST] A lawyer representing one of 17 Canadians arrested on terror charges [JURIST report] in June argued Monday in an Ontario court that Canada's anti-terror legislation [Canada DOJ backgrounder] discriminates because it focuses only on "brown" Muslim and Arab groups and excludes "white" groups such as the Ku Klux Klan [Wikipedia backgrounder]. [read post]
17 Aug 2005, 2:42 am
[JURIST] Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood [official profile] is seeking to revoke the bail of convicted murderer and former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen [JURIST news archives] because of pre-trial death threats made by his brother. [read post]
13 Jun 2005, 8:16 am
[JURIST] The trial of reputed Ku Klux Klan member Edgar Ray Killen [JURIST report] began on Monday with jury selection in Philadelphia, Mississippi. [read post]
30 Apr 2005, 6:41 pm
Black, fallado por la Suprema Corte de los EE.UU. en 2003, a raíz de las acciones penales iniciadas contra miembros del Ku Klux Klan en base a una ley que prohibía la quema de cruces (es un acto ritual del grupo segregacionista violento que aún se extiende por los territorios del Sur). [read post]
7 Jan 2005, 1:05 am
[JURIST] An alleged member of the Ku Klux Klan was arrested in Mississippi Thursday after being indicted by a grand jury for the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers that later inspired the movie "Mississippi Burning". [read post]
6 Dec 2004, 4:44 am
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected hearing an appeal by the Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan challenging the constitutionality of New York Penal Law 240.35(4) that bans the wearing of masks at public gatherings. [read post]
28 Nov 2003, 12:01 am
On November 28, 1871, Ku Klux Klan trials began in US District Court in South Carolina as part of a federal effort to halt growing White violence in the former Confederate states. [read post]