Civil rights group’s lawsuit using Ku Klux Klan Act is last hope of holding Trump accountability for Jan. 6
One of the nation’s leading civil rights groups is fighting to hold President-elect Donald Trump accountable for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. “We have to decide, as a nation, do we want to allow that type of racialized political violence to be normalized and to go unaccounted for,” said Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The civil rights organization is leading the civil lawsuit, Smith […]
