NAACP files suit accusing Trump, GOP of violating KKK Act

[babylonsister]

NAACP files suit accusing Trump, GOP of violating KKK Act
By Harper Neidig - 12/22/20 11:37 AM EST



The NAACP is accusing President Trump and the Republican Party of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act with their efforts to overturn election results in key battleground states.

In an amended lawsuit filed Monday night, the civil rights organization added the Reconstruction-era law to their case against the president's campaign that was filed last month.

"Defendants’ efforts to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters — targeting cities with large Black populations, including Detroit, Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Atlanta, Georgia — repeat the worst abuses in our nation’s history, where Black Americans were denied a voice in American democracy for most of the first two centuries of the Republic," the new lawsuit reads.

The NAACP filed the lawsuit last month on behalf of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and a group of Black Michigan voters, accusing the Trump campaign of violating the Voting Rights Act in seeking to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory.

The amended lawsuit added the Republican National Committee (RNC) as a defendant in the case and the allegations about the Ku Klux Klan Act.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/531277-naacp-files-suit-accusing-trump-gop-of-violating-kkk-act

[Laelth]

1. Good.

I don’t know the details of the complaint, but it sounds valid and warranted on its face.

-Laelth

[soothsayer]

2. Totally behind this

That’s exactly what they’ve tried to do this entire election (and successfully did in 2016 with that Cambridge research stuff)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. K&R