A Democratic congressman files a lawsuit under the rarely used KKK Act accusing former president Donald Trump and lawyer Rudy Giuliani of conspiring to incite the violent riot that shook the US Capitol on January 6.
A top House Democrat sued former President Donald Trump, his attorney Rudy Giuliani, and two right-wing groups for their alleged roles in planning and executing the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6, just days after the Senate acquitted Trump on the same charge.
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Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat who chairs the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, is the named plaintiff on the suit in U.S. District Court in Washington.