MSNBC All In With Chris Hayes August 25, 2019 00:06:00
Republicans had to pass three separate pieces of legislation to enforce the law against white terrorists in the south. they called them the enforcement act, like, no, seriously, we mean it. and the third -- the third enforcement act was called the ku klux klan act. it's the first anti-terrorism legislation in the country. it allows the president to suspend habeas corpus throughout the south. it was so dramatic because they were at their wit's ends about what to do about white supremacist terroristic violence and to the grant administration, the grant administration under the aegus under the ne...
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