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There is a good possibility this case might work its way to the six to three Reuplican majority US Supreme Court.. Of course this case could take a good five plus years to get a hearing from Scotus which if the US Circuit Court rules against the Plaintiffs may not even be reviewed. Definitely an interesting case.Congressman sues Trump under 1871 Klan Law...
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 Explained As NAACP Sues Trump, Proud Boys For Violating It
The NAACP, the nation's oldest civil rights organization, filed a lawsuit citing the nation's oldest hate group - the KKK - alleging that Trump, his lawyer and far-right extremist groups violated the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.
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Citing the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson brought the legal action against Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani as well as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers on behalf of the NAACP “for conspiring to prevent him and other Members of Congress from discharging these official duties” in relation to the attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Of course no decent lawyer with half a brain will even take the defendents case unless they are paid in advance. Trump has a well known history of stiffing his lawyers on their bill even Guliani.Congressman sues Trump under 1871 Klan Law...
The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 Explained As NAACP Sues Trump, Proud Boys For Violating It
The NAACP, the nation's oldest civil rights organization, filed a lawsuit citing the nation's oldest hate group - the KKK - alleging that Trump, his lawyer and far-right extremist groups violated the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.
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Citing the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson brought the legal action against Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani as well as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers on behalf of the NAACP “for conspiring to prevent him and other Members of Congress from discharging these official duties” in relation to the attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
If I remember right they used this same type of civil suit action using that law to bankrupt the Klan... in like the late 1970's...
The Klan was never bankrupted one particular chapter was. There are many independent Klan groups in the US. There were always rival groups like the Red Shirts and the Knights of the White Camila. Today the old saying " everybody wants to be the Chief no one wants to be the Indian " applies .
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So what's the solution? No way in hell the Republicans will give up the Electoral College. More likely then not the US Supreme Court will uphold the new restrictive voting laws in Republican controlled state which very much includes crucial swing states such has Arizona and Georgia.Here is a 538 report showing minority rule is coming for the next century... There's a great little 5min video showing the bias in our system favoring minority rule... @Jim Klag , @O' Be Joyful , @jgoodguy , @rittmeister
Advantage, GOP
In tennis, the two players switch sides of the court after every odd game — to even out any advantages that one player might have due to the sun. Democracy is n…
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By now, Democrats’ disadvantage in the Electoral College is well-documented. President Joe Biden won the national popular vote by 4.5 percentage points, yet he won Wisconsin — the state that gave him his decisive 270th electoral vote1 — by only 0.6 points. In other words, Biden needed to beat former President Donald Trump nationally by more than 3.8 points2 in order to win the White House outright. (However, Trump wouldn’t have won outright unless Biden had won the popular vote by fewer than 3.2 points, thus losing Pennsylvania as well.3 The Electoral College’s Republican bias in 2020 thus averaged out to 3.5 points — but either way, it’s the most out of sync the Electoral College has been with the popular vote since 1948.)
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Minority rule has always been possible in the U.S., as we saw during the Jim Crow era, when white people manipulated elections and obstructed Congress in order to suppress the rights of a Black majority in many Southern states. The founders purposely designed many of our federal institutions to only indirectly reflect the will of the people — in political science lingo, they made them “counter-majoritarian.”
I never argue this...
None that will happen... I say every city bigger than the smallest state gets a Senator or two... because it is the cities being punish because of the way our system was created... maybe give the cities one House rep too... that is my solution... and have neutral committees do the gerrymandering in each state, this could happen...
Not going to happen. The founding fathers set up the current system of governence in a very deliberate fashion. Its not a clue coincidence that many of the founding fathers were large slave owners who lived in rural areas. It's not a coincidence that the Repubican Party has hitched it's future to rural whites. Not seeing a path to change how the US government changes the rules of representation without civil conflict.
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Of course none of that matters because state legislatures in the critical swing state can and will appoint their own electors to elect who ever the Republican Party nominiewe boomers are shrinking as a share of the vote... The only hope of mankind is rgw aging out of the boomers...
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Behind Biden’s 2020 Victory
A new analysis of 2020 validated voters examines change and continuity in the electorate, both of which contributed to Joe Biden’s victory. It looks at how new voters and voters who turned out in either 2016, 2018 or both voted in the 2020 presidential election, and offers a detailed portrait of...
- After decades of constituting the majority of voters, Baby Boomers and members of the Silent Generation made up less than half of the electorate in 2020 (44%), falling below the 52% they constituted in both 2016 and 2018. Gen Z and Millennial voters favored Biden over Trump by margins of about 20 points, while Gen Xers and Boomers were more evenly split in their preferences. Gen Z voters, those ages 23 and younger, constituted 8% of the electorate, while Millennials and Gen Xers made up 47% of 2020 voters.1
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