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4. I'd seen it referred to as The Klan Act. They think they're so clever.
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 05:07 PM
16 hrs ago

Conspiracy against rights is a federal offense in the United States of America under 18 U.S.C. § 241:

Conspiracy against rights was initially invoked against vigilante groups like the Ku Klux Klan that acted to prevent recently-emancipated Black Southerners from exercising their rights granted by the Reconstruction Amendments in the aftermath of the American Civil War.[5][6][7] The legislative intent of the statute was aimed towards election offenses which interfered with the exercise of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. As the law does not define new rights nor does it elaborate on the range relevant rights or privileges, courts have generally interpreted that the attempted deprivation of a broad range of rights falls under the scope of the statute.

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

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