Posted on 02/16/2021 11:38:11 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, the former president’s personal lawyer, have been accused of conspiring to incite the violent riot at the US Capitol, in a legal action filed under a historic law known as the Ku Klux Klan Act. Trump remains 2024 candidate of choice for most Republicans, poll shows Read more
The lawsuit was brought on Tuesday by the Democratic congressman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi and the eminent civil rights organisation the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
It comes three days after Trump was acquitted by the US Senate on a charge of inciting the 6 January insurrection, only for the minority leader, Mitch McConnell, who voted to acquit, to point out that presidents are “not immune” to being held accountable by criminal or civil litigation.
The suit alleges that Trump, Giuliani and the extremist groups the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers conspired to incite the attack on the Capitol with the goal of preventing Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s win in the presidential election.
It argues that they therefore violated a law often referred to as the Ku Klux Klan Act, passed in 1871 in response to Klan violence and intimidation preventing members of Congress in the Reconstruction south from carrying out their constitutional duties. The NAACP, founded in 1909, says the statute was designed to protect against conspiracies.
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It can be a class action, including multiple wrongful death claims, destruction of property, personal injury, assault...
Let's get ready to rumble!
Bennie Thompson is a black racist first. Then an American congressman. He’s slick, just like brain-damaged Clyburn and the late John Lewis (who was actually a decent person at one time).
Guaranteed that if we did sue we wouldn’t have “standing”. Even if you had a family member murdered by them.
Also, Thompson’s suit, which will probably be thrown out of court by a laughing judge, actually could backfire against the Congressional Black Caucus/ himself, and BLM because it would make Kamala Harris and Maxine Waters susceptible to a similar lawsuit over their cries and orders to their followers to “surround, get in their face, etc. and “fight” comments re conservative politicians and citizens.
Time to take the legal fight to these black Marxists and racist fools. They go “legal”, we go “double-down legal on their asses”.
“Standing” is relevant in constitutional contests. Wrongful Death, Personal Injury, Property Damage, assault, etc., are causes of action that sound in common and statutory law, and an injured party has “standing” by the very fact that he is claiming injury.
“John Lewis (who was actually a decent person at one time)”
Personality changes occur when you insert a cash register in a head injury.
What took them so long?
Dismiss with prejudice - lack of standing. Lack of brains, as shred of truth and decency, too, but courts don’t say that kind of thing.
But, not in the brave new world we are in. The rights of the aggressors/offenders for "race inequity" are superior to your rights as an "injured" party./s- sort of.
Torts is torts. Racial whozawatsits have only been around for a few decades. Common law and precedent go back to Wm. The Conqueror and before, thousands of years.
2. How is the NAACP a party to this claim?
You should include George “The Jewish Nazi” Soros in the suit for funding the leftist violence.
Two things that I am certain of:
1. The legal system is broken beyond repair.
2. One gets all the justice one can afford in Amerika.
History cast aside.
Odd to have a Congresswoman doing this. Used to be, the Feds would use the Deptaretment of Justice to persecute innocent people.
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