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11 Jun 2019, 6:29 pm by Tom Smith
Hawley objected to a legal brief in which Bogren, representing the city, compared the situation to a business owned by a member of the Ku Klux Klan member refusing to serve African Americans and citing religious liberty as a justification. [read post]
13 Aug 2017, 4:59 pm by Tom Smith
Saturday's chaos erupted around what is believed to be the largest group of white nationalists to come together in a decade - more than 1,000 neo-Nazis, skinheads and Ku Klux Klan members who descended on the city of Charlottesville to "take America back" by rallying against plans to remove a confederate statue. [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 11:13 am by Tom Smith
Sanger supported black eugenics, a racist attitude toward black and other minority babies; an elitist attitude toward those she regarded as “the feeble minded;" speaking at rallies of Ku Klux Klan women; and communications with Hitler sympathizers. [read post]
10 Jul 2020, 11:54 am by Tom Smith
Yes, abortion proponents concede, Sanger spoke at a Ku Klux Klan rally, carried on friendly correspondence with segregationists, used the “n” word, and described herself as “mainly responsible for arousing interest in the negro programme” targeting African American procreation. [read post]
22 May 2009, 9:30 am
Four years ago, the Ku Klux Klan won the right to participate in the Missouri Adopt-a-Highway program, prevailing in a Skokie-like First Amendment case. [read post]
12 Nov 2008, 4:12 pm
On Tuesday, eight people were arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of an Oklahoma woman during what is believed to be a Ku Klux Klan initiation. [read post]
19 Nov 2020, 10:11 am by Gerard Magliocca
In the First Ku Klux Klan Act, Congress provided that actions brought to enforce Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment "shall take precedence of all other cases on the docket of the court to which it is made returnable, and shall not be continued unless for cause proved to the satisfaction of the court. [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]
6 Apr 2010, 10:53 am by Mark Merenda
Today's post is part two of SmartTalk, a podcast in which I chat with estate planning attorney Victor Medina about lawyer-entrepreneurship, managed risk, voodoo, peer pressure, failing faster, the Ku Klux Klan, Victor's paranoia, microfiche, unsolved murders, how Google changed Mark's life, what Americans do at night, The California Switchblade, clicks and conversions, the uses of video, the power of "new", and the lizard brain. [read post]
22 Jan 2021, 4:12 am by Gerard Magliocca
Instead, a civil action (as described in Section Fourteen of the First Ku Klux Klan Act) enforced Section Three. [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]
6 Jun 2009, 3:16 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [official website] upheld [DOJ press release] on Friday the 2007 conviction of former Ku Klux Klan [ADL backgrounder] member James Ford Seale [JURIST news archive; Clarion Ledger backgrounder] for the kidnapping and deaths of two African American 19-year-olds in 1964. [read post]
31 Aug 2009, 6:20 am
The order stemmed from reports of mob floggings, some involving the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
24 Aug 2007, 1:31 pm
[JURIST] James Ford Seale [Wikipedia profile], alleged to have been a member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) [JURIST news archive], was sentenced to three life sentences Friday for his role in the kidnapping and death of two 19-year old teens in Mississippi in 1964. [read post]
17 Jun 2007, 2:19 pm
Margaret Burnham, Northeastern, has an excellent guest post on Jurist about the on-going trial of James Seale for the murder of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Thomas Moore, both 19 years old, by members of the Ku Klux Klan, in Mississippi in 1964. [read post]
3 Apr 2011, 1:47 pm by Anders Walker
For the past few years, I've spent a lot of time trying to recover the vigilante horror of the Ku Klux Klan, using it to flag the virulent racism that characterized the South at the [read post]