A brief history of the Ku Klux Klan Acts: 1870s laws to protect Black voters, ignored for decades, now being used against Trump
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Special counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on an indictment against former President Donald Trump on 2023 Aug 01. Drew Angerer/Getty Images – By Joseph Patrick Kelly, Professor of Literature and Director of Irish and Irish American Studies, College of Charleston – Published: 2023 …