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The act is also part of an active lawsuit against white supremacists involved in violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in…. Blog April 20, by Nicholas Mosvick.

Check Out the Text 14th Amendment. The influx of Catholic and Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe offered a new target for the Klan's prejudice. The audio, illustrations, photos, and videos are credited beneath the media asset, except for promotional images, which generally link to another page that contains the media credit.

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In the s, the Klan sought respectability by accepting women members and setting up youth groups. It largely abandoned its opposition to Roman Catholics. Some Klan leaders even ran for public office in the South. David Duke, a former Grand Wizard, was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in and ran unsuccessfully for governor as a Republican in The Klan and Klan activity have been at the heart of many First Amendment cases.

Demonstrations and counter-demonstrations and racially provocative statements by Klansmen have often produced controversy. In overturning the conviction of a Klansman in Brandenburg v. Pinette , the Court upheld the right of the Klan to display a Latin cross on state capitol grounds. Paul , the Supreme Court struck down a hate speech law that had been applied to youth who had burned a cross on a lawn, ruling that the law contained a form of viewpoint discrimination prohibited by the First Amendment.

However, in Virginia v. Black the Court ruled that the First Amendment did not prohibit laws that penalized individuals who burned crosses with the intent of intimidating others.

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