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Last week, in a legal brief filed by prosecutors at the request of judges on Washington, D.C.’s federal court of appeals, the United States Department of Justice said that former president Trump cannot be shielded...
On Tuesday, the NAACP and Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson filed the first civil action against former President Trump "solely in his personal capacity," along with lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers organizations, for allegedly conspiring to incite the insurrection on the United States Capitol on Jan. 6 to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election. The lawsuit cites a section of the act, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act or the Third Enforcement Act, that makes it illegal to "conspire to prevent, by force, intimidation, or threat, any person...hol...
The 150-Year-Old Ku Klux Klan Act Being Used Against Trump In Capitol Attack Breaking News Violent attempts to overturn an election aren’t new in American politics. After the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan launched white-supremacist insurrections all across the South to stop Black people and their allies from voting. And 150 years ago, President Ulysses S. Grant and Congress responded to those vigilante attacks with a groundbreaking law. Known as the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, it still protects Americans from political intimidation today. This week, the Klan Act was cited in a fede...
Reconstruction: A Timeline of the Post-Civil War Era For a 14-year period, the U.S. government took steps to try and integrate the nation's newly freed Black population into society. Author: Recently freed African Americans receive rations. Credit: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images For a 14-year period, the U.S. government took steps to try and integrate the nation's newly freed Black population into society. Between 1863 and 1877, the U.S. government undertook the task of integrating nearly four million formerly enslaved people into society after the Civil War bitterly divided the ...
By OLIVIA RUBIN, ABC News(WASHINGTON) — A new claim filed in federal court on Tuesday accuses President Donald Trump, his campaign, and the Republican National Committee of violating the so-called “Ku Klux Klan Act” in their efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The new complaint alleges that they engaged in a “coordinated [...]