NAACP files litigation against Trump and Giuliani in connection to Jan. 6 insurrection

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Natasha Bertrand
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"The lawsuit, filed Tuesday morning in Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that Trump and Giuliani, in collaboration with the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, conspired to incite the riots ... in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act"

NAACP files litigation against Trump and Giuliani in connection to Jan. 6 riots
The lawsuit claims that the former president and his personal lawyer violated the Ku Klux Klan Act by conspiring with white supremacist groups to incite the insurrection.
politico.com
8:11 AM · Feb 16, 2021

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/16/naacp-trump-giuliani-capitol-riots-469077

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1. Interesting

I was unaware with this law, but it seems applicable in this case.

[StarfishSaver]

4. The KKK Act is rarely used

But it was tailor-made for this situation.

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5. First I've heard of it!

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2. Fantastic! We know drumph loves lawsuits! He'll be thrilled!!!So will his lawyers!

Can I have an Amen?

[safeinOhio]

3. I donate to the NAACP every year.

They do important work. Well worth any support you can give.

[samsingh]

6. beautiful - we should donate to the NAACP

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. Wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Enforcement_Act


The Enforcement Act of 1871 (17 Stat. 13), also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, Third Enforcement Act,[1] Civil Rights Act of 1871, Force Act of 1871, or Third Ku Klux Klan Act,[citation needed] is an Act of the United States Congress which empowered the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus to combat the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and other white supremacy organizations. The act was passed by the 42nd United States Congress and signed into law by United States President Ulysses S. Grant on April 20, 1871. The act was the last of three Enforcement Acts passed by the United States Congress from 1870 to 1871 during the Reconstruction Era to combat attacks upon the suffrage rights of African Americans. The statute has been subject to only minor changes since then, but has been the subject of voluminous interpretation by courts.
This legislation was asked for by President Grant and passed within one month of when the president sent the request to Congress. Grant's request was a result of the reports he was receiving of widespread racial threats in the Deep South, particularly in South Carolina. He felt that he needed to have his authority broadened before he could effectively intervene. After the act's passage, the president had the power for the first time to both suppress state disorders on his own initiative and to suspend the right of habeas corpus. Grant did not hesitate to use this authority on numerous occasions during his presidency, and as a result the first era KKK was completely dismantled and did not resurface in any meaningful way until the first part of the 20th century.[2] Several of its provisions still exist today as codified statutes. The most important of these is 42 U.S.C. § 1983: Civil action for deprivation of rights.

In January 1871, Republican Senator John Scott of Pennsylvania convened a congressional committee to hear testimony from witnesses of Klan atrocities. In February, Republican Congressman Benjamin Franklin Butler of Massachusetts introduced his anti-Klan bill, intended to enforce both the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Butler's bill was narrowly defeated in the House, whereupon Republican Rep. Samuel Shellabarger, of Ohio, introduced a substitute bill, only slightly less sweeping than Butler's original. This bill brought a few holdout Republicans into line, and the bill narrowly passed the House, sailed through the Senate, and was signed into law on April 20 by United States President Ulysses S. Grant.[3]

Benjamin Franklin Butler drafted the initial version of the third Enforcement Bill.

Samuel Shellbarger wrote the final version that passed and was signed into law.

Under the Klan Act during Reconstruction, federal troops were used rather than state militias to enforce the law, and Klansmen were prosecuted in federal court, where juries were often predominantly black. Hundreds of Klan members were fined or imprisoned, and habeas corpus was suspended in nine counties in South Carolina. These efforts were so successful that the Klan was destroyed in South Carolina and decimated throughout the rest of the former Confederacy, where it had already been in decline for several years. The Klan was not to exist again until its recreation in 1915. During its brief existence, however, the "first era" Klan did achieve many of its goals in the South, such as denying voting rights to Southern blacks.[3]
In its early history, under the Grant Administration, this act was used—along with the Force Act—to bring to justice those who were violating the Civil Rights of newly freed African Americans. After the end of the Grant Administration, and the dismantling of Reconstruction under Rutherford B. Hayes, enforcement of the Act fell into disuse and few cases were brought under the statute for almost a hundred years.

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8. This is hard hitting charge on the face of it, Section 5 and 6 of the act could mean members of the

... Trump admin were conspiring with terrorist.

Watching this space

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