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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]
19 Jan 2021, 10:43 am
The quo warranto provision of the 1870 Ku Klux Klan Act could be reinstated with some adjustments. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 5:57 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]
14 Jan 2021, 3:29 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]
9 Jan 2021, 8:27 am
” In a notable reference following the violence on Capitol Hill encouraged by President Trump Wednesday morning, just before the crowd marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and violently disrupted the formal Congressional counting of electoral votes, Garland quoted historian Ron Chernow, who wrote, “The new Justice Department would forge its identity in the battle to slay the first incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan and its offshoots. [read post]
3 Jan 2021, 7:18 pm
The plaintiffs’ amended complaint alleges that President Trump violated the Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act by pressuring state legislatures to override the popular vote and appoint Presidential electors. [read post]
27 Dec 2020, 7:35 pm
Trump, the plaintiffs amended their complaint to add a claim that the President violated the Ku Klux Klan Act in allegedly pressuring state legislatures to override the popular vote and appoint Presidential electors. [read post]
25 Dec 2020, 11:43 am
In its complaint, the NAACP noted that many of the Trump campaign's lawsuits seek or sought to invalidate Black votes. [read post]
15 Dec 2020, 8:30 am
[The same logic could apply when churches, synagogues, mosques, bookstores, gun stores, fur stores, and similar places are targeted by their enemies. [read post]
10 Dec 2020, 11:16 am
Just to offer a few examples, the materials may include passages from Mein Kampf; photographs from concentration camps; photographs of lynchings; depictions of swastikas or Ku Klux Klan rallies; court documents discussing racist behavior; passages from the autobiographies of the victims of violence, war, and oppression, or from fictional descriptions of violent events; or statistical data that reflects disparities among various groups. [read post]
19 Nov 2020, 10:11 am
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]
9 Nov 2020, 7:06 am
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]
9 Nov 2020, 7:06 am
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]
30 Oct 2020, 1:17 pm
For example, in the years leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Ku Klux Klan and similar groups responded to the efforts of civil rights leaders and legislators to expand voting rights by increasing efforts to intimidate voters. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 12:04 pm
” Free Speech for People alleged violations of Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Section 2 of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. [read post]
22 Oct 2020, 9:52 am
Meanwhile, their investigation of a 1919 race riot focused less on the Ku Klux Klan than on civil rights groups that they blamed for inciting the riot (at the height of this riot, a mob of nearly 1,000 white people burned down multiple Black-owned houses and killed Black people without law enforcement intervening). [read post]
18 Oct 2020, 3:33 am
Ten years ago, white supremacy frequently described the likes of the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke, the neo-Nazi politician from Louisiana. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 9:48 am
In some ways, a more apt comparison for present-day militias would be less the early American militias than the Ku Klux Klan, the Knights of the White Camellia, and other white supremacist organizations that arose in the Civil War South. [read post]
3 Oct 2020, 3:10 pm
Like similar laws enacted during the same era, the law grew out of concerns over the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. [read post]
