Trump, his campaign, and the Republican National Committee won a round in federal court against the NAACP and associated plaintiffs, who sued over Trump’s efforts to challenge the vote count in several states.
hundreds of millions of dollars to turn out voters in Democrat-heavy counties in key states. Mass vote-by-mail also attracted close scrutiny in states where it was attempted for the first time.
But the lawsuit portrayed GOP challenges as an effort to disenfranchise black voters in particular, in violation of the Voting Right Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act. The latter was passed after the Civil War to stop efforts to disenfranchise black voters. “Defendants’ efforts to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters—targeting cities with large Black populations, including Detroit, Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Atlanta, Georgia—repeat the worst abuses in our nation’s history, where Black Americans were denied a voice in American democracy for most of the first twoThe judge in the lawsuit was Emmet Sullivan, the same judge who presided over the trial of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, and...
The judge withheld ruling on whether Trump and the GOP must face claims that they violated the Ku Klux Klan Act, which for now survives intact. Trump and the RNC lost a separate motion to transfer the remaining litigation away from the Democratic stronghold jurisdiction of Washington, D.C.Sullivan ruled that the civil rights groups lack standing to advance the Voting Rights Act claim because the lawsuit focuses on past conduct, yet seeks relief on future conduct.
The case was closely-watched, because it could have damaged future Republican efforts to monitor elections in Democrat-heavy areas, where Zuckerberg and other activists have concentrated their efforts, raising suspicions about ballot integrity.on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET . He is the author of the recent e-book,
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