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One of the charges against Donald Trump dates back to the 1870s and was designed to give the federal government the power to ensure states held free and fair elections.
I believe the 1870s Ku Klux Klan Acts have something to teach us about the fourth count in the Jan. 6 case against Trump.
Reconstruction, the period (1865–77) after the American Civil War during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded.
A post-Civil War statute could make all the difference in the case against the former president.
Trump is accused of conspiring to undermine Americans’ right to vote – a charge with roots in the Civil War’s aftermath but used to more broadly prosecute voter fraud conspiracies and election interference, Alex Woodward reports