The NAACP is suing former President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. The civil rights group filed the suit today on behalf of Democratic Congressman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi. It claims that when Trump and Giuliani tried to block the certification of the presidential election on January 6, they violated the Ku Klux Klan Act, a law passed after the Civil War to help enforce new constitutional protections for former slaves at the time. The suit comes after the Senate acquitted the former president this weekend on the charge of inciting an insurrection.
Guest: Jessica Levinson, Professor, LMU’s Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
Source: KCRW
NAACP and Rep. Bennie Thompson Sue Trump Over January Insurrection – After He’s Acquitted in Impeachment Trial