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18 USC §§ 241 originated with the Enforcement Act of 1870, which enforced the "Right of Citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union, and for other Purposes." In furtherance of its chief end of assuring the right of African Americans to vote, it provided that it should be a misdemeanor for any "person or officer ...
The law was originally enacted, with slightly different phrasing, in Section 6 of the Enforcement Act of 1870. [3]: 913 The statutory text was revised in 1909 and in 1948, when it became Section 241 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code. [4]: 236 Conspiracy against rights was initially invoked against vigilante groups like the Ku Klux Klan that acted to prevent recently-emancipated Black Southerners ...
The resulting case, United States v. Price, would stand because state actors were involved. On August 1, 2023, the Justice Department charged former President Donald Trump under the Enforcement Act of 1870, now 18 U.S.C. 241, in United States v. Donald Trump over his attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.
Justice Douglas reversed for a 5-3 majority. He held that the provisions of 207(b) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 making the remedies provided in Title II of the Act the exclusive means of enforcing rights based on such part do not preclude a criminal prosecution of the defendants under 18 USC 241, since the exclusive-remedy provision applies only to enforcement of substantive rights to ...
In its coverage, Title 18 is similar to most U.S. state criminal codes, typically referred to by names such as Penal Code, Criminal Code, or Crimes Code. [2] Typical of state criminal codes is the California Penal Code. [3] Many U.S. state criminal codes, unlike the federal Title 18, are based on the Model Penal Code promulgated by the American ...
States that fail to make this pivot to protect and promote childhood vaccination will also be faced with the serious toll of illness on children and families, school closures, and community ...
The US Justice Department has entered a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s Fulton County over jail conditions that federal investigators have described as inhumane, violent and unsanitary.
The Enforcement Act of 1870, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1870 or First Ku Klux Klan Act, or Force Act (41st Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 114, 16 Stat. 140, enacted May 31, 1870, effective 1871), is a United States federal law that empowers the President to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States.