Legal experts Harry Litman and Ryan Goodman discussed reports that Trump will be charged under a civil rights law by Jack Smith's office.
of Title 18 of the U.S. Code. The legislation states that it is unlawful for anyone to conspire to"injure, threaten, or intimidate a person" from exercising any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or U.S. laws of the United States.
It is still unclear how the law may be applied to Trump by federal prosecutors if reports the former president will be charged under section 241 are accurate., former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman and former Department of Defense special counsel Ryan Goodman suggested the law could be cited by prosecutors to charge Trump in connection to the violence which occurred at the Capitol on January 6.
"The short answer is that we will know soon. In the meantime, however, the rough consensus seems to be around a theory of deprivation/impingement of rights to vote for 88 million Americans or at least citizens of the 7 states w/ false electors. For a few reasons, I am less persuaded than many of my colleagues of this theory."will be cited under another section of U.S. law dealing with conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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