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Print this article Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden arrives at a stop on his bus tour, Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, in Emmetsburg, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (Charlie Neibergall/AP) "Trump Train" participants accused of harassing a Biden campaign bus on a Texas highway last year are now being sued. The Texas Civil Rights Project, a Left-leaning nonprofit group advocating for social justice; Protect Democracy, a nonprofit group aimed at p...

Trump supporters in McAllen, Texas. A group of people traveling on a President Joe Biden campaign bus on a Texas highway last fall when it was surrounded and followed by former President Donald Trump’s supporters have filed a lawsuit against at least seven people who allegedly were following the bus, claiming the group violated the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and Texas law by organizing a "politically-motivated conspiracy to disrupt the campaign and intimidate its supporters." The Klan Act preve...

The NAACP Lawsuit Against Trump Is Delayed After Some Guy Named ‘Ricky’ Took the Paperwork Asawin Suebsaeng, Adam Rawnsley © Provided by The Daily Beast Saul Loeb/Getty In February, “Ricky” signed for a federal lawsuit delivered to former President Trump and then was never seen again. Since then, people in both Trump’s camp and the team pressing the lawsuit on behalf of Mississippi Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson have been left scratching their heads, about who, exact...

The 150-Year-Old Ku Klux Klan Act Being Used Against Trump In Capitol Attack Breaking News Violent attempts to overturn an election aren’t new in American politics. After the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan launched white-supremacist insurrections all across the South to stop Black people and their allies from voting. And 150 years ago, President Ulysses S. Grant and Congress responded to those vigilante attacks with a groundbreaking law. Known as the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, it stil...

Fri Feb 19, 2021 The leftist NAACP, which never met a conservative it didn’t consider to be a racist hatemonger, is suing former President Donald Trump using an obscure law that was wielded against the Democratic Party-affiliated terrorists of the Ku Klux Klan who murdered blacks and their Republican enemies after the Civil War. The Ku Klux Klan Act is an unusual tool to pull from a cobweb-covered chest of old laws nobody knew were still in existence. President Ulysses S. Grant (h...

The organization is suing Trump on behalf of Representative Bennie Thompson, a survivor of the Capitol insurrection, under the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act.

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee has sued former President Donald Trump, his attorney Rudy Giuliani and two violent right-wing groups over…

English By Masood Farivar Share on Facebook WASHINGTON - With the odds seemingly in favor of former President Donald Trump prevailing in his impeachment trial, a debate is brewing among legal scholars and some members of Congress over whether a once-forgotten provision of the U.S. Constitution can be used to bar the former president from holding federal office ever again.  The provision is part of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. Ratified i...