The Ku Klux Klan Act is now being used in court against Donald Trump

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https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/the-ku-klux-klan-act-is-now-being-used-in-court-against-donald-trump/36696/

Robert Harrington | 8:00 pm EST February 16, 2021

In what we can only hope will be the first in a long string of civil actions against Donald Trump, Tuesday morning Mississippi Representative Bennie Thompson, the NAACP, and civil rights law firm Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll, filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and the two white supremacist groups “The Proud Boys” and “The Oath Keepers” for their role in the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol Building.

The suit alleges that Trump and Giuliani, in collaboration with the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, conspired to incite the riots to keep Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. They are, in effect, retrying the sole article of impeachment from the second impeachment of Donald Trump in open court.

The suit further claims that the defendants did so in violation of The Enforcement Act of 1871, also known as “The Ku Klux Klan Act,” which is an act of the United States Congress empowering the President with special powers to suppress racist insurrection, including the power to suspend habeas corpus. In other words, the plaintiff claims Donald Trump was specifically working against the letter and intent of the Enforcement Act when, as president, it was his duty and obligation to enforce it.

There is no mention of it in the suit, but this could prove to be the first time in history a former president has been hit with a civil suit for failing to honor his oath of office. It was, after all, Donald Trump’s sworn duty to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” You’d have to be a fairly cynical defense lawyer to argue that the oath of office oath does not cover honoring and executing laws created by the very Congress enshrined in that selfsame Constitution.

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1. Good nt

[dhill926]

2. whatever it takes....

bury the son of a bitch...

[marble falls]

3. Apt. His dad, would be so proud!