When Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday
and accused of trying to subvert the results of the 2020 presidential
election, he found himself in the unenviable company of defendants
charged under a criminal statute dating to the Reconstruction era.
The statute, Section 241 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code,
was originally adopted as part of the Enforcement Act of 1870. It was
the first in a series of measures known as the Ku Klux Klan Acts
designed to protect rights guaranteed by the 13th, 14th and 15th
amendments, collectively called the Reconstruction Amendments. Section
241 makes it a crime to “conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or
intimidate any person” exercising a right protected by the Constitution
or federal law.
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