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Explainer: What is the Ku Klux Klan Act cited in lawsuit against Trump The Democratic chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee has filed a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump that cites a little-known federal statute that was first passed after the Civil War. The complaint, filed Tuesday by Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, accuses Trump, his attorney Rudy Giuliani, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers of violating the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act. The lawsuit accuses them of inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to prevent the certification of the 2020 presidential elect...

February 1, 2021 3:46 p.m. Like so many episodes in the Trump era, one of the administration’s most audacious moves was first made public in a tweet.  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was in a bind.  At the time, a court order giving the Census Bureau more time to finish its count put in jeopardy Trump’s plan to fundamentally change how political power is doled out across the country. The President wanted to exclude undocumented immigrants from the congressional apportionment count, which would starve immigrant-friendly states of House seats while boosting the represe...

Legislation backed by House of Delegates Speaker Adrienne A. Jones would set aside $577 million in additional funding for the state’s four HBCUs — Morgan State and Coppin State universities in Baltimore, Bowie State University and the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore.

Baldwin Wallace University Voters cast ballots at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections during the general election of November 2020. The voter turnout in the county was the highest since 2012. The 2020 general election proved to be one of the most polarizing and contested in recent history. But, how did things go in Ohio as votes were cast and ballots counted? By the numbers, 2020’s election was a good one. Turnout was high and an audit released by Ohio’s secretary of state Jan. 5 showed a 99.98% accuracy of the vote. Increase in voter turnout registered voters participated in the elec...

After Trump’s drubbing in the courts, liberals fear a legal hangover “There is some risk that some of these decisions that have come in post-election litigation could be bad for progressive plaintiffs going forward if you have courts choose to extend some of these doctrines towards pre-election challenges,” said Jon Greenbaum, chief counsel at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “There is some danger in that.”… Nearly every decision now stands as precedent that Republicans or state officials can seek to wield against Democrats or civil rights groups in the endless le...