“Posse Comitatus has its genesis in the administration of Rutherford Hayes.”
Its genius was to relieve the South from military occupation, which it had been under for about twelve years.
Had nothing whatever to do with black citizenship and the general notion that the KKK controlled everything in the South is laughable. The KKK was a secret organization, had to be, because it operated outside the law that existed at that time.
It reminds me of the historical revisionism that blacks could not vote in the South before the Voting Rights Act of 1964. They had been voting by the hundreds of thousands previous to that year, at least here in Louisiana if they so chose.
Less than half of all Americans choose to vote today.
Hayes was a Republican who won by an electoral college majority and lost the popular vote. Congress was controlled by the Democrats. They pulled the same crap with him as with Trump to a lesser degree.
Federal troops still occupied two states and he had to pull them.
The damn civil war and the Democrat slavocracy along with its appendages like the KKK gave us a horrendous civil war, national destruction, birthright citizenship, posse comitatus,
and the erosion of states’rights.
Posse Comitatus Act was directly created by the Democrat controlled Congress.