WASHINGTON - The House Homeland Security chairman accused Donald Trump in a federal lawsuit Tuesday of inciting the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capi.
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Cohen Milstein Reps Lawmaker Suing Trump For Capitol Riot
Law360 (February 16, 2021, 8:58 PM EST) Attorneys at Cohen Milstein and the NAACP are representing a Democratic lawmaker who sued former President Donald Trump and others on Tuesday for allegedly causing the deadly Capitol riot in January and violating the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan Act.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said he expects other lawmakers to join his case against Trump, the ex-president s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and two far-right extremist groups, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. He said litigation in D.C. federal court was necessary after the Senate acquitted Trump in his second impeachment trial Saturday..
US Representative Bennie Thompson on Tuesday accused former US president Donald Trump in a federal lawsuit of inciting the storming of the US Capitol, and conspiring with his lawyer and groups to try to prevent the US Congress from certifying the results of last year’s US presidential election.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified punitive and compensatory damages.
It also names as defendants former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, and the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, organizations that have had members charged by the US Department of Justice over the events of Jan. 6.
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