The NAACP has sued Trump, his campaign and RNC for violating the Voting Rights and Ku Klux Klan Act
NAACP Sues Trump, GOP Over Alleged Disenfranchisement of Black Voters
Black voters likened President Donald Trump and his campaign to white supremacy groups in a new lawsuit.
Joining a lawsuit originally brought by Detroit-based Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, the NAACP accused both Trump and the Republican Party of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act in their efforts to overturn the results of the election.
While the original complaint only went so far as to call out violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the amended lawsuit filed on Monday night included the Jim Crow era-law and added the Republican National Committee (RNC) as a defendant in the case.
"Defendants' efforts to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters—targeting cities with large Black populations, including Detroit, Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Atlanta, Georgia—repeat the worst abuses in our nation's history, where Black Americans were denied a voice in American democracy for most of the first two centuries of the Republic," the new lawsuit reads.
"These systematic efforts—violations of the [Voting Rights Act] and the Ku Klux Klan Act—have largely been directed at major metropolitan areas with large Black voter populations. These include Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and others. Defendants have not directed these efforts at predominantly white areas," the complaint states.
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