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Debates about handling Confederates reveal that the 14th Amendment bars unrepentant insurrectionists from office.

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Updated: Feb 17, 2021, 06:51 AM IST It seems that the former US President Donald Trumps woes are far from being over. On Saturday Trump was acquitted of inciting the January 6 Capitol riots. Although, the former president was once again acquitted by the Senate on the charges of Incitement of Insurrection, it was a historic rebuke of a president by his own party as seven Republican senators joined Democrats to convict Trump. Now a senior Democratic Congressman sued former president Donald Trum...

The organization says he violated an 1871 law designed to protect against racist violence. Published February 16th The NAACP filed suit against former president Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani Tuesday (Feb. 16), accusing them of breaking a 150-year-old law initially developed to target racist hate groups. The lawsuit, filed in federal court on behalf of Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, accuses Trump, Giuliani and two groups, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, alleging...

The 1871 act was passed in response to KKK violence.