Ku Klux Klan

Breonna Taylor and how a civil rights law from 1866 could pave the way to police accountability and federal intervention

By Mia Brett / August 11, 2022 / Comments Off on Breonna Taylor and how a civil rights law from 1866 could pave the way to police accountability and federal intervention

Is the Justice Department re-embracing its original mandate?

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A 150-year-old anti-Klan law is being used in lawsuit against organizers of Unite the Right

By Mia Brett / November 18, 2021 / Comments Off on A 150-year-old anti-Klan law is being used in lawsuit against organizers of Unite the Right

By using the Ku Klux Klan Act, or the Enforcement Act of 1871, the suit links the alt-right to a century and a half of white violence. 

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