Federal prosecutors have introduced a new twist into the Jan. 6
investigation by suggesting in a target letter that they could charge
former President Donald Trump with violating a civil rights statute that
dates back to the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, according to three
people familiar with the matter.
The letter to Trump from the special counsel, Jack Smith, referred to
three criminal statutes as part of the grand jury investigation into
Trump’s efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss, according to two
people with knowledge of its contents. Two of the statutes were familiar
from the criminal referral by the House Jan. 6 committee and months of discussion by legal experts: conspiracy to defraud the government and obstruction of an official proceeding.
But the third criminal law cited in the letter was a surprise: Section
241 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which makes it a crime for
people to “conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any
person” in the “free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”
Congress enacted that statute after the Civil War to provide a tool for
federal agents to go after Southern whites, including Ku Klux Klan members.
https://news.yahoo.com/potential-trump-charges-civil-rights-115918933.html
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