The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: PeteS in CA on February 16, 2021, 09:08:14 pm
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Democrat Claims Trump Violated Anti-KKK Law by 'Inciting' Capitol Riot
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/02/16/democrat-claims-trump-violated-anti-kkk-law-by-inciting-capitol-riot-n1425855 (https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/02/16/democrat-claims-trump-violated-anti-kkk-law-by-inciting-capitol-riot-n1425855)
Three days after the U.S. Senate acquitted former President Donald Trump of the charge of “incitement of insurrection†in his second impeachment trial, a Democratic congressman filed a lawsuit accusing Trump of violating an anti-Ku Klux Klan law by inciting the Capitol riot on January 6.
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, sued Trump on Tuesday. The lawsuit claims the former president violated a provision of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which Congress passed in response to KKK violence. The act prohibits violence or intimidation meant to prevent Congress or other federal officials from carrying out constitutional duties.
LOL! Does Thompson realize that a lawsuit would be tried in court? Where he'd have to present evidence? And he wouldn't be able to prevent Trump from presenting evidence?