Even though he may have escaped a Senate impeachment conviction, former President Donald Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani are still facing the ramifications of their actions on Jan. 6th when they encouraged an angry mob to storm the Capitol.
In a civil lawsuit filed in federal court on Tuesday, Feb. 16, CNN reported that Mississippi Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson has accused Trump and Giuliani of conspiring with the far-right groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to incite the attempted insurrection.
According to reporter Jessica Schneider, Thompson — who is Democratic chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee — cites a post-Civil War law designed to combat violence and intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan. (The rarely used federal statute was originally passed as a means to reduce the risk of violence caused by the Ku Klux Klan and allows “civil actions to be brought against people who use ‘force, intimidation, or threat’ to prevent anyone from upholding the duties of their office.”)
