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9 Feb 2022, 6:30 am
In a section on “The Rise of Remedies,” Huq notes the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act (with its key provision, today known as “Section 1983”) and an 1867 amendment to the 1789 Judiciary Act that expanded the power of federal courts to issue the writ of habeas corpus. [read post]
27 Jan 2022, 2:25 pm
From anti-masking laws that prevent Ku Klux Klan members from wearing masks to membership laws forcing the NAACP to disclose its roles, the First Amendment has played an important but overlooked role in governing privacy at its intersection with association and speech. [read post]
25 Jan 2022, 5:01 am
In Brandenburg, the Supreme Court reversed the conviction of an Ohio Ku Klux Klan leader, reasoning that “the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action. [read post]
13 Jan 2022, 9:01 pm
Clarence Brandenburg was a Ku Klux Klan leader who was prosecuted for a speech that included racist epithets and antisemitic statements. [read post]
17 Dec 2021, 3:00 am
National/Federal A New Lawsuit Accuses the FEC of Failing to Investigate Russia’s ‘Coordination’ with the 2016 Trump Campaign Yahoo News – C. [read post]
15 Dec 2021, 12:21 pm
The suit accuses the groups of breaking the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, which was passed to protect Black citizens from violence and intimidation. [read post]
29 Nov 2021, 1:32 pm
Commonly known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, the law contains a rarely used provision that allows private citizens to sue other citizens for civil rights violations.For more coverage you can check: Politico. [read post]
24 Nov 2021, 3:32 am
The jury rejected these arguments under state law, although it hung under federal conspiracy law, the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, for reasons that are unclear. [read post]
23 Nov 2021, 1:18 pm
Whether it is a noose, the N-word, the use of the word “monkey,” or Ku Klux Klan hoods, it is more than offensive, it is damaging and possibly illegal. [read post]
25 Oct 2021, 10:13 am
The lawsuit, filed by nine Charlottesville residents, uses a Reconstruction-era statute designed to protect newly emancipated Black people from violence by the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
24 Oct 2021, 9:44 am
The success of such a measure in Oregon (with Democratic votes and Ku Klux Klan leadership) prompted the Supreme Court to hold compulsory public education unconstitutional. [read post]
27 Sep 2021, 7:58 am
But the NBC report, like almost all mainstream media coverage, fails an even greater imaginative test: these publications cannot imagine a world outside the framing of the 1960s civil rights era, comparing opposition to critical race theory with racial segregation, Jim Crow, and the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
24 Sep 2021, 7:53 am
It employed white supremacists, including Ku Klux Klan members, from the outset, and its early history included regular beatings, shootings, and hangings of migrants. [read post]
23 Sep 2021, 4:15 am
It did so after the terrible events of Charlottesville and historical research showing incontrovertibly that March was a member of a campus group called the Ku Klux Klan, though the group was not affiliated in any way with the national Knights of the K.K.K. [read post]
21 Sep 2021, 9:55 am
Kohn also points out that the Texas law violates the Civil Rights Act of 1871, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act. [read post]
18 Sep 2021, 7:07 am
But it wasn't that Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 10:30 pm
Otto von Gierke, Santi Romano, and Francesco Calasso on Medieval Institutions and Legal PluralismApril 12, 2022: Kevin Mumford, University of Illinois HistoryUnmasking the Fourth Ku Klux Klan and the Problem of HateMay 10, 2022: Francesca Trivellato, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical StudiesRenaissance Florence and the Origins of Capitalism: A Business History Perspective--posted by Mitra Sharafi [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 9:02 pm
”In March 2016, candidate Trump initially refused to renounce Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke’s endorsement, reversing only under media pressure. [read post]
28 Aug 2021, 1:01 pm
The plaintiffs allege six counts against the defendants in the complaint: violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act (“KKK Act”) – conspiracy to interfere with civil rights, and failure to prevent the same (counts 1 and 2); violation of DC Bias-Related Crimes Act (“BRCA”); battery; assault; and negligence. [read post]
26 Aug 2021, 1:13 pm
Stone Jr. and others.The suit cites the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act which protects proceedings of Congress from violent conspiracies. [read post]
