Article 5EPC1 We're suing to hold Trump accountable for 'treasonous acts', NAACP chief says

We're suing to hold Trump accountable for 'treasonous acts', NAACP chief says

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Derrick Johnson accuses president of operating under a white supremacist doctrine' in suit filed using 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act

Civil rights group the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has argued thats its suing of Donald Trump using the Ku Klux Klan Act - a historic law enacted to combat white supremacy - is in order to hold the former president accountable to Black voters that his Republican administration sought to invalidate.

The lawsuit alleges Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani sought to undermine the will of American voters by orchestrating a series of events that unfolded [with] the Save America rally and the storming of the Capitol" on 6 January in events that shocked the world.

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