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New: Rep. Bennie Thompson filed a lawsuit in federal court today against Trump, Giuliani, the Proud Boys, and the Oath Keepers alleging they conspired to interfere with Congress's certification of the election, in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20484426/2-16-21-thompson-v-trump-complaint.pdf
Trump is already facing a separate lawsuit alleging a violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act over his postelection activities, filed by the NAACP LDF on behalf of Black voters across the country (co-defendant in that case is the RNC) https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/republicans-legal-consequences-trump-voter-fraud-lies
Here's the full text of the section of the Ku Klux Klan Act, 42 USC 1985(1), that Thompson is invoking to sue Trump https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1985
Story, with more to come: A member of Congress, backed by the NAACP, is suing Trump, Giuliani, the Proud Boys, and the Oath Keepers, alleging they conspired to interfere with Congress's certification of the election in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-guiliani-proud-boys-sued-capitol-riots
Today's new lawsuit seeking to hold Trump civilly liable for the Jan. 6 insurrection isn't the first time he's been sued under the Ku Klux Klan Act — he's already facing a case accusing him of violating the civil rights of Black voters after the election https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-guiliani-proud-boys-sued-capitol-riots
