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PHILADELPHIA, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The representatives for a proposed class of professional mixed martial arts fighters in an antitrust lawsuit against the Ultimate Fighting Championship ( UFC ) today announced the launch of a new case website www.UFCclassaction.com dedicated to informing members of the proposed class and the general public about the case. To inform fighters who are members of the proposed class and others about the status of and key developments in the case, today the plaintiffs are announcing the launch of the website UFCclassaction.com. We plan to use this site to update and inform fighters of the status of our lawsuit, said named plaintiff Cung Le.
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U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso. The lawsuit argues that Trump, Giuliani and extremist groups like the Proud Boys violated the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, which was “in response to KKK violence and intimidation preventing Members of Congress in the South during Reconstruction from carrying out their constitutional duties,” according to the NAACP. Credit: Matt McClain/Pool via REUTERS
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, joined nine other congressional Democrats on Wednesday in adding their names to a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, for conspiring with right-wing extremists to incite a riot at the U.S. Capitol to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election results.
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar joins lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of inciting Capitol riot
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U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, joined nine other congressional Democrats on Wednesday in adding their names to a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, for conspiring with right-wing extremists to incite a riot at the U.S. Capitol to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election results.
The lawsuit was initially filed by the NAACP, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and civil rights law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll in mid-February. It argues that Trump, Giuliani and extremists groups like the Proud Boys violated the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, which was “in response to KKK violence and intimidation preventing Members of Congress in the South during Reconstruction from carrying out their constitutional duties,” according to the NAACP.
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The group of lawmakers signed onto the amended complaint Wednesday, nearly two months after Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, who sits atop the House Homeland Security Committee, partnered with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and civil rights law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll to file the lawsuit in the District Court for the District of
Columbia.
The members of Congress who joined the suit are Democratic Reps. Steve Cohen, Karen Bass, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Veronica Escobar, Hank Johnson Jr., Marcy Kaptur, Barbara Lee, Jerry Nadler, Maxine Waters, and Pramila Jayapal.
The suit accused Trump and Giuliani of having “conspired” with the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers to “incite an assembled crowd to march upon and enter the Capital of the United States for the common purpose of disrupting, by the use of force, intimidation, and threat.”
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