BREAKING: Trump And GOP Officials Ordered To Appear In Court For Violating KKK Act Of 1871 (DETAILS)

[BigBearJohn]

A federal judge called the Trump campaign into court Wednesday afternoon after Nevada Democrats filed a lawsuit claiming that the campaign and Republican officials in Nevada have violated the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. The lawsuit alleges that Trump’s campaign and the officials it represents are guilty of stripping away the civil rights of Americans.

The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, “also called the Civil Rights Act of 1871 or the Force Act of 1871, was one of several important Civil Rights Acts passed by Congress during Reconstruction in the period following the Civil War, when the victorious northern states attempted to create a new political order in the South. The act was intended to protect African Americans from violence perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a white supremacist group.”

With the use of intimidation tactics, GOP officials and the Trump campaign have apparently hindered certain groups of people from voting in the 2016 presidential election by using scare tactics that make some voters feel unsafe. Trump supporters’ previous acts of physical violence against anyone who disagrees with them is reason enough for women and minorities to be intimidated.

The lawsuit asks for a temporary restraining order, which Trump’s campaign will be ordered to respond to in court today. Democrats from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Arizona have also joined in on the suit with similar claims about their state’s GOP party representatives violating the Ku Klux Klan Act.

http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/11/02/breaking-trump-and-gop-officials-ordered-to-appear-in-court-for-violating-kkk-act-of-1871-details/

[TexasTowelie]

1. Don't expect a quick ruling on this one.

I posted about this topic last night:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141614662

[Coyotl]

15. Trump’s campaign will be ordered to respond to in court today.

That is the relief sought. We'll know soon enough.

[yuiyoshida]

2. Trump is sure digging himself a deeper and deeper hole

and a disgrace to the office of President.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Here is a Slate article on this

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On Friday morning, a federal district court will hear arguments in a dispute between the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee over whether the RNC, the Trump campaign, and its allies are violating a long-standing consent decree barring the RNC from engaging in intimidation of minority voters at the polls. It’s not the only case being heard on an emergency basis this week: Democrats have filed suit against Donald Trump, Republican state parties, and Trump ally Roger Stone in the battleground states of Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. In the Nevada suit, Stone has been ordered to explain at a separate Friday hearing what his questionable “Stop the Steal” organization is planning for Election Day.

But regardless of how these hearings go Friday, the lawsuits have already borne fruit by getting the campaign on the record with its plans and promises not to intimidate voters. In an important development on Thursday afternoon, the Trump campaign in response to the lawsuits sent an email to Nevada campaign workers describing for them what constitutes illegal harassment and what constitutes good behavior. By getting Trump on the record promising not to harass voters with its “ballot security” activities, the Democrats have significantly lessened the chances of Trump-driven voter intimidation on Election Day.

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It is not clear what the judge in the DNC versus RNC case will do or what the other judges will do in the state-centered lawsuits that could actually help on Election Day. It might seem that an order from the courts for these entities not to engage in voter intimidation would be too vague to be enforced, and in any case such an order would not deal with any rogue Trump vigilantes who might head to polling places to make trouble.

While it is true that we cannot discount the problem of Trump vigilantes, the suit has forced the RNC, state parties, and the Trump campaign to disclose their official plans. In the Nevada suit, for example, the morning after the court held an emergency hearing, the Trump campaign sent out an email to all those supporters who signed up to be poll-watchers in Nevada that carefully limits the circumstances in which they can try to challenge voters. All over the materials are calls for Trump supporters to avoid anything that looks like voter intimidation.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2016/11/trump_campaign_promises_not_to_intimidate_voters_on_election_day_that_s.html

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. If we can get that Trump email, tamp down intimidation by sending it around to all the social media.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Here it is

http://electionlawblog.org/?p=88629

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Thanks! Take away is that "poll watchers" MUST CALL LEGAL HOTLINE before verbally challenging anyone

[BlancheSplanchnik]

17. Thanks, I like Slate.

[Coolest Ranger]

4. Well be encouraged

he lost a similar suit in NC maybe he'll lose here too

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. Trump want to make America great again...like the 'good ol days' of

Reconstruction till early 20th Century...and beyond in parts, and too many hearts, of America.

[Generic Other]

8. Very creepy!

Any idea where this is from?

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s by Kathleen M. Blee

Women racists. Who knew.

https://www.amazon.com/Women-Klan-Racism-Gender-1920s/dp/0520257871

[Generic Other]

11. The cover of that book is even more creepy

They look like witches. Granny, mother and child. Makes me shudder. Thanks for the link.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

9. K&R nt

[sarcasmo]

12. Dance with the Klan, get treated like the Klan. Crazy we even have to bring

up the Klan Act.

[Wounded Bear]

13. Rachel Maddow did a segment that mentioned this the other night...nt

[lindysalsagal]

16. Already suing the would-be "president."

un-effing-be-lievable.