Trump accused of violating Ku Klux Klan law
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has accused President Trump and the GOP of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act due to efforts to overturn election results in key states. The Hill.
In an amended lawsuit filed on the evening of December 21, the human rights organization added a reference to the Reconstruction-era law to its lawsuit against the presidential headquarters filed last month.
“The 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—echo the worst abuses in our nation's history. , when Black Americans were denied the right to vote in American democracy for much of the first two centuries of the republic,” the new lawsuit states.
Last month, the NAACP filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and black voters, accusing Trump's headquarters of violating the Voting Rights Act in an attempt to topple President-elect Joe Biden.
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Added to the amended lawsuit is the Republican National Committee as a defendant in the case and charged with violating the Ku Klux Klan Law.
The lawsuit accuses the Trump campaign and the Committee of violating an 1871 law that prohibits "preventing by force, intimidation or threat any citizen lawfully entitled to vote from giving his support in a lawful manner for the election of any legally qualified person to the office of President or Vice President."
Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis said the case was groundless.
“Election integrity is about counting every legal vote and not counting every illegal vote. "This lawsuit baselessly attacks the Trump campaign's efforts to protect the integrity of every American's ballot," she said in a statement.
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Trump's staff and his allies have filed a flurry of lawsuits in an effort to overturn election results in key states in a sustained effort to change the outcome of the election. So far, this has not led to the exclusion of electoral votes from the total number of votes in favor of Biden.
The NAACP claims in its new lawsuit that these efforts targeted areas with predominantly black residents.
“These systematic efforts were primarily directed at large metropolitan areas with large numbers of black voters,” the lawsuit states. “The defendants did not target these efforts to predominantly white areas.”
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