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13 Apr 2021, 9:41 am
Ohio (1969), where the Court ruled that it was perfectly fine for a Ku Klux Klan member to use speech that promoted violence in general, unless the speech directed people to take unlawful action immediately. [read post]
9 Apr 2021, 12:30 pm
Friends, Tuesday April 20 is the 150th anniversary of President Grant signing the Civil Rights Act of 1871 into law, giving the federal government powerful tools to fight the Ku Klux Klan—and giving civil rights plaintiffs a powerful tool, Section 1983, to hold state and local officials accountable for violating the Constitution. [read post]
31 Mar 2021, 4:20 pm
Steven B. [read post]
17 Mar 2021, 12:44 pm
” The second pamphlet focused on the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
26 Feb 2021, 8:47 am
Section 1985(1) was established by the 1871 Third Enforcement Act, also known as the Second Ku Klux Klan act—the culmination of a series of measures meant to (and that eventually did) destroy the first Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
25 Feb 2021, 8:00 pm
While the lawsuit seeks “unspecified monetary damages” against Trump and Giuliani, and may not ultimately result in a verdict against the former president, Thompson and the NAACP hope the suit will serve to quell any similar violence in the future.Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/how-1871-ku-klux-klan-act-being-used-latest-trump-n1258132 [read post]
19 Feb 2021, 3:00 am
Thompson alleged Trump and Giuliani’s false claims the election was stolen fomented a raid that violated the Ku Klux Klan Act, an 1871 law enacted after the Civil War to bar violent interference in Congress’s constitutional duties. [read post]
18 Feb 2021, 10:46 am
Indeed, a member of Congress has already sued Trump for violating the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. [read post]
17 Feb 2021, 8:45 am
Rep. [read post]
16 Feb 2021, 12:19 pm
And will he support the range of cases that are now being brought, including one just filed by House members for compensatory and punitive damages over violations of the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act? [read post]
16 Feb 2021, 8:21 am
Giuliani violated the Ku Klux Klan Act, an 1871 statute that includes protections against violent conspiracies that interfered with Congress’s constitutional duties; the suit also names the Proud Boys, the far-right nationalist group, and the Oath Keepers militia group. [read post]
10 Feb 2021, 1:58 pm
From the recruitment of Ku Klux Klan members into its... [read post]
3 Feb 2021, 11:27 am
Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
1 Feb 2021, 5:00 am
The second set of PADAA claims involve domestic extremism and threats to civil rights, under two statutes enacted in the 1860s in response to Ku Klux Klan action in the Reconstruction South. [read post]
30 Jan 2021, 6:01 am
” The statute originated in the Enforcement Act of 1870, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act—Reconstruction-era legislation passed in response to a campaign of Klan violence aimed at keeping Black Americans from the polls. [read post]
29 Jan 2021, 12:39 pm
New on the Bound By Oath podcast: the origins of Section 1983—originally known as Section 1 of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. [read post]
27 Jan 2021, 4:03 pm
Experts differ on Brandenburg impact (ABA Journal, January 14, 2021): "Could a 1969 case involving a Ku Klux Klan leader protect President Donald Trump from incitement charges in connection with the Jan. 6 riot on the U.S. [read post]
23 Jan 2021, 12:01 am
The Ku Klux Klan reacted violently. [read post]
22 Jan 2021, 4:12 am
Instead, a civil action (as described in Section Fourteen of the First Ku Klux Klan Act) enforced Section Three. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 10:43 am
(The exception likely derives from the fact that state legislatures—like the houses of Congress—have their own exclusion and expulsion procedures on which the drafters of the First Ku Klux Klan Act chose not to tread.) [read post]
