Judge in KKK Act suit against 'Trump Train' highlights similar incident from 1868 [View all]
Matt NahamAug 14th, 2024, 3:48 pm
A federal judge has now unsealed a lengthy opinion explaining why “Trump Train” participants are heading towards trial in a Ku Klux Klan Act lawsuit filed over the October 2020 surrounding of a Biden-Harris bus on I-35 in Texas, writing that a “reasonable jury” could find “force, intimidation, or threat[s]” were used to “interfere with Plaintiffs’ rights to support or advocate for their candidates for President and Vice President” and that the claim can survive without a “showing of racial or class-based animus.”
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman last week denied summary judgment motions that were filed by defendants Eliazar Cisneros, Joeylynn Mesaros, Robert Mesaros, and Dolores Park, siding with KKK Act, civil conspiracy, and civil assault plaintiffs Wendy Davis — a Democratic former member of the Texas Senate — former Biden-Harris campaign staffer David Gins, and bus driver Tim Holloway, and setting the stage for a September trial, nearly four years after the incident that gave rise to the case ...
“Although the methods of political intimidation may change over time and require adapting the Klan Act to new contexts, the conduct alleged here requires no such adaption; the Defendants’ alleged conduct is similar to a type of political violence that the Klan engaged in at the time of the Act’s enactment,” Pitman wrote in one part of the ruling, providing an example from 1868 of where a wagon full of 36 Republican “young ladies” on the way to a political rally crashed due to an act of “Ku-Klux treachery” ...
https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/judge-unseals-reasoning-for-sending-2020-trump-train-kkk-act-lawsuit-toward-trial/
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