NAACP files lawsuit accusing Trump and Guiliani of inciting the Capitol insurrection
On behalf of House Homeland Security Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss), the NAACP has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Donald
Trump, Rudy Guiliani, the Proud Boys, and the Oath Keepers of conspiring to incite a violent riot on January 6, 2021. The goal of the accused was to prevent Congress from carrying out its official duty to certify the presidential election.The lawsuit alleges that Trump and Guiliani violated a fairly obscure law, the Ku Klux Clan Act, which was passed in 1871. It was a response to the “KKK violence and intimidation preventing Members of Congress in the South during Reconstruction from… More