2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A Car with PA Plates Tosses VA Voter Registration Forms into a Dumpster – & That’s Just for Starters [View all]kooljerk666
(776 posts)decline to prosecute.
I was on the phone all day today & spoke with Sen Jud committee for 1/2 hour, they ran out & got law books & the guy I spoke with was very interested. Sherod Browns office also listened & understood the seriousness of this law & criminal activity.
Senator Leahy & Sanders office were also both interested.
ANyone with a Dem senator on the Judiciary committee should call & demand an explanation as to why nothing is happening.
Sheldon Whitehouse would be nice to have investigating this.
Senate Judiciary Committee: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/committees.tt?commid=sjudi
The FBI also should be called, I hate to talk to them & end up on a list, but I will never get on an airplane again so I may risk the call.
This is from Dec 2012 page 46 "Grant takes on the KKK"
April 1871 Congress approved what was formally named '~ Act to Enforce the Provisions of the FoUrteenth Amendment" but in- formally dubbed the Ku Klux Klan Act. The measure allowed persons deprived of their rights under the Constitution to bring suit in federal courts (rather than state courts). It defined conspiracy to deprive citizens of the equal protection of the laws or prevent citizens from voting, and it permitted the prosecution of such conspiracies in federal courts. It also declared that when the denial of rights was so organized and egregious that it overawed state authorities, or when state authorities connived in the denial, such combinations "shall be deemed a rebellion against the government of the United States." The president was then authorized "to sus- pend the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus, to the end that such rebellion may be overthrown."
THE UW GAVE GRANT the power he sought, but it was up to him to use it. "It is my earnest wish that peace and cheerful obedience to law may prevail throughout the land and that all traces of our late unhappy civil strife may be speedily removed," the president proclaimed after its passage. Yet neither Grant's words nor the legislation did anything to sway Southern racists.
The entire article is not online.
Here are relevant links, is there a Lawyer iin the house?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1871
http://www.enotes.com/ku-klux-klan-act-1871-reference/ku-klux-klan-act-1871
I posted this in another thread & it died, am I wasting time& space or is this law relevant?