President Donald Trump’s administration, his re-election campaign and the RNC are listed in a lawsuit filed by the NAACP alleging the president and his allies engaged in an effort of disenfranchise Black voters in the 2020 presidential election.
The suit claims the administration and the RNC violated the Voting Rights Act and Ku Klux Klan Act.
A law enacted during Reconstruction, the KKK Act prohibits the use of “force, intimidation or threat” against “any citizen who is lawfully entitled to vote" in a presidential election.
According to reporting by the Independent, the suit was filed November 20, on behalf of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and three Detroit residents following the Trump’s efforts to challenge election results in the state.
“President Trump and his allies have repeatedly and unsuccessfully tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election results and undermine confidence in our democracy,” NAACP president Derrick Johnson wrote on the organization's website. “Across the country – from Detroit to Milwaukee, and Atlanta to Philadelphia – they have targeted areas with large numbers of Black voters and made baseless, racist claims to attempt to not count their votes.”
The president, his legal team and supporters have filed more than 50 legal challenges, most of which have been withdrawn or thrown out for lack of evidence.
"These steps to delegitimize our democracy were targeted in cities across the country with high numbers of Black voters. These actions are a clear violation of the Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act," the NAACP statement reads.