Southern Poverty Law Center - Texas /states/texas en Extremism Headlines: Uganda anti-人兽性交 law, Eastman disbarred, Politician claimed 'white genocide' /hatewatch/2024/04/05/extremism-headlines-uganda-anti-lgbtq-law-eastman-disbarred-politician-claimed-white <div class="field field-name-field-story-type field-type-list-text field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even ">Hatewatch</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-long-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><p>Every week, we highlight stories on extremism and the radical right from the Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 Intelligence Project. Here are stories that caught our attention through April 5.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-title-field field-type-text field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><h1>Extremism Headlines: Uganda anti-人兽性交 law, Eastman disbarred, Politician claimed &#039;white genocide&#039; </h1> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><h2>Kentucky politician claimed Jewish people promote "white genocide"</h2> <ul> <li>TJ Roberts, a politician from Boone County, Kentucky, said he was "sick of [Jewish people] promoting white genocide鈥 in a <a href="/hatewatch/2024/04/03/kentucky-politician-claimed-jewish-people-promote-white-genocide-2017-private-chat">private 2017 chat that Hatewatch obtained</a>. "White genocide," or the <a href="/hatewatch/2022/05/17/racist-great-replacement-conspiracy-theory-explained">great replacement conspiracy theory</a>, is the unfounded claim that elites are attempting to dilute white-majority nations with immigrants.</li> <li>Roberts' political activism looks like it began in <a href="/hatewatch/2022/05/25/mises-caucus-could-it-sway-libertarian-party-hard-right">far-right libertarian circles</a>. He was a contributor to the Liberty Hangout, a far-right libertarian outlet that used to collaborate with white nationalist <a href="/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/augustus-sol-invictus">Augustus Invictus</a>' defunct website. He was also part of a university group that invited white nationalist Richard Spencer to speak at a conference in 2017. Roberts declined to comment. Hatewatch shared the conversation with Rep. Thomas Massie, who has supported Roberts. Massie responded that he would "double" his support for Roberts.聽</li> <li>In a statement to the <em>Lexington Herald-Leader</em>, Roberts said he remembered the chat but that his comment was taken out of context. On X, he denied making antisemitic comments.聽</li> </ul> <h2>Texas Company paid over $20 million to antigovernment group to bus immigrants聽</h2> <ul> <li>Hatewatch <a href="/hatewatch/2024/04/02/texas-company-paid-extremist-group-20-million-operation-lone-star-busing">obtained documents</a> that show Wynne Transportation, the company the state of Texas contracts to bus immigrants from the U.S.-Mexico border as part of "Operation Lone Star," paid antigovernment extremist Mayhem Solutions Group (MSG) tens of millions of dollars. A subcontractor who worked for Mayhem has called the conditions on these buses "inhumane." The documents also reveal a tangled web of limited liability companies that conduct the busing on behalf of Wynne Transportation.聽</li> <li> <p>Hatewatch <a href="/hatewatch/2023/07/18/extremist-group-illegally-promotes-security-services-across-us">has previously reported </a>on MSG's sometimes unlicensed activities as a private investigations and security firm across the U.S.聽</p> </li> </ul> <h2>John Eastman disbarred over 'unethical' acts</h2> <ul> <li>Former Trump team attorney John Eastman has been disbarred over "unethical" actions in relation to his legal attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, <a href="/hatewatch/2024/04/03/judge-recommends-former-adf-attorney-be-disbarred-law-license-now-inactive">Hatewatch reported</a>. The California Bar's website listed him as "<a href="https://apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/193726">not eligible to practice law</a>" as of April 2. Judge Yvette Roland聽<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24521265-sbc-23-o-30029-decision-trial" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">recommended</a>聽that "the serious and extensive nature of Eastman鈥檚 unethical actions, the most severe available professional sanction [disbarment] is warranted to protect the public and preserve the public confidence in the legal system." Eastman has appealed and it will be up to the California Supreme Court to issue a final order.</li> </ul> <h2>Professor 'hidden hand' behind far-right media platform</h2> <ul> <li><em>The Guardian </em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/29/boise-state-university-professor-scott-yenor-action-idaho">has revealed </a>that Scott Yenor, a professor at Boise State University and a scholar associated with the <a href="/hatewatch/2023/12/13/contracts-between-hungarian-nonprofit-and-christopher-rufo-others-raise-foreign-agent">Claremont Institute</a>, is the "hidden hand" behind Action Idaho, a far-right online media platform. The article reported that Action Idaho disseminated inflammatory right-wing commentary on Idaho politics, including attacks on 人兽性交 individuals and Republicans deemed insufficiently right-wing. Notably, Yenor secured funding for Action Idaho from influential donors, including Thomas D. Klingenstein, the chair of the Claremont Institute board,聽according to聽<em>The Guardian.</em></li> </ul> <h2>Uganda constitutional court upholds anti-人兽性交 law</h2> <ul> <li>Uganda鈥檚 constitutional court upheld an anti-人兽性交 law on April 3 that imposes severe penalties for consensual same-sex relations. <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ugandas-constitutional-court-upholds-anti-homosexuality-law-2024-04-03/">Reuters reported</a>. The law, signed into effect in May of last year, includes provisions such as life imprisonment for 人兽性交 individuals engaged in consensual relationships. The court found that certain sections of the law violated the 鈥渞ight to health, privacy, and freedom of religion.鈥 Despite this, the court declined to nullify the entire law. Additionally, the law prescribes the death penalty for cases of "aggravated homosexuality," which includes sexual relations involving people infected with HIV and minors. Petitioners against the law expressed disappointment, vowing to appeal to the Supreme Court.</li> <li>Hatewatch <a href="/hatewatch/2024/02/13/despite-denials-harsh-anti-lgbtq-law-uganda-appears-be-based-us-rhetoric-and-pseudoscience">previously reported </a>on Uganda聽President Yoweri Museveni and first lady Janet Museveni's April meeting with <a href="/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/family-watch-international">Family Watch International </a>(FWI) leader Sharon Slater and others from FWI. FWI is an <a href="/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/anti-lgbtq">anti-人兽性交 organization</a> that works in legislation and policy across the world.</li> </ul> <p>Read last week's edition here:聽<a href="/hatewatch/2024/03/28/extremism-headlines-nazi-imagery-army-patch-arizona-braces-election-threats">Extremism Headlines: Nazi imagery on Army Patch, Arizona braces for election threats</a></p> <p><em>Above photo:聽A panel of five Constitutional Court Judges of Uganda led by the Deputy Chief Justice of Uganda Richard Buteera read their joint judgement at the Constitutional Court, where the Court upheld the anti-人兽性交 Law in Kampala, Uganda April 3, 2024. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa</em></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-byline field-type-text field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even ">Hatewatch Staff</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-addthis field-type-addthis field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:title="Extremism Headlines: Uganda anti-人兽性交 law, Eastman disbarred, Politician claimed &#039;white genocide&#039; - Southern Poverty Law Center" addthis:url="/hatewatch/2024/04/05/extremism-headlines-uganda-anti-lgbtq-law-eastman-disbarred-politician-claimed-white"><a href=" " class="addthis_button_facebook" aria-label="Facebook: Share this page"></a> <a href=" " class="addthis_button_twitter" aria-label="Twitter: Share this page"></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-publish-date field-type-date field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><span class="date-display-single">April 05, 2024</span></div> </div> </div> Wed, 03 Apr 2024 16:01:48 +0000 creede.newton_3057 17921 at Garner v. Ladner /seeking-justice/case-docket/garner-v-ladner <div class="field field-name-field-case-popular-name field-type-text field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><h2>Corrine Garner et al. v. Thomas Ladner et al.</h2> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><p>On Christmas Day in 1987, Loyal Garner Jr., a 34-year-old truck driver from a small Louisiana town who had never been in trouble with the law, crossed the border into Texas to help a friend with car trouble. He was arrested on a traffic charge and taken to a county jail in Hemphill, Texas, where he was beaten by three lawmen. Garner died two days later in a Tyler, Texas, hospital. He left behind his wife of 14 years, six young children and his mother and father.</p> <p>On January 19, 1988, the 人兽性交 filed a federal civil action on behalf of the Garner family against the three lawmen, the local county government and the City of Hemphill. While the 人兽性交鈥檚 suit was pending, the three lawmen were tried and acquitted of state charges of violating Garner鈥檚 civil rights. Many observers at this trial, held in Hemphill, felt the proceedings were stacked in the lawmen鈥檚 favor.</p> <p>After their acquittal, two of the lawmen filed a civil action against 人兽性交 attorneys and the 人兽性交 itself. The lawmen claimed that 人兽性交 attorneys had conspired with two persons in Texas to frame them. A federal judge ruled that their suit was a transparent effort to interfere with the 人兽性交鈥檚 case on behalf of the Garner family, and he put the lawmen鈥檚 suit on hold.</p> <p>人兽性交 investigators found key evidence against the lawmen that had been unavailable to the prosecutors in the Hemphill trial. On the eve of the 人兽性交鈥檚 civil trial, the three lawmen and the county settled. The City of Hemphill had settled its portion of the case earlier. The settlement ensured financial security for Garner鈥檚 widow, his children and his parents. But the three lawmen who beat him to death were still free.</p> <p>Armed with 人兽性交 evidence, prosecutors in Tyler, where Garner died, filed murder charges against the lawmen. At the trial, a doctor who treated Garner said the power of the blow that killed him had the same force as that needed to hit a center-field fly ball with a baseball bat. On May 3, 1990, an all-white jury found the three lawmen guilty of murder. Thomas Ladner, the 42-year-old former police chief of Hemphill, was sentenced to 28 years in prison. James Hyden, 35, a former sheriff鈥檚 deputy, was sentenced to 14 years. Billy Ray Horton, 59, also a former sheriff鈥檚 deputy, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-publish-date field-type-date field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label"><h2>Date Filed</h2></div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><span class="date-display-single">January 19, 1988</span></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-case-status field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label"><h2>Status</h2></div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even ">Closed</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-case-court field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label"><h2>Court where filed</h2></div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even ">U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Lufkin Division</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-issue-area field-type-entityreference field-label-above"> <div class="field-label"><h2>Issue Area</h2></div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><a href="/issues/mass-incarceration">Criminal Justice Reform</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-case-plaintiffs field-type-text-long field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label"><h2>Plaintiffs</h2></div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even ">Corrine Garner et al. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-case-defendants field-type-text-long field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label"><h2>Defendants</h2></div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even ">Thomas Ladner et al.</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-documents field-type-file field-label-above"> <div class="field-label"><h2>Related Documents</h2></div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><span class="file"><img class="file-icon" alt="PDF icon" title="application/pdf" src="/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png" /> <a href="/sites/default/files/d6_legacy_files/downloads/case/Garner_Complaint.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=174600" title="Garner_Complaint.pdf">Complaint</a></span></div> <div class="field-item odd "><span class="file"><img class="file-icon" alt="PDF icon" title="application/pdf" src="/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png" /> <a href="/sites/default/files/d6_legacy_files/downloads/case/Garner_Amended_Complaint.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=214775" title="Garner_Amended_Complaint.pdf">Amended Complaint</a></span></div> <div class="field-item even "><span class="file"><img class="file-icon" alt="PDF icon" title="application/pdf" src="/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png" /> <a href="/sites/default/files/d6_legacy_files/downloads/case/Garner_Final_Judgment.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=979352" title="Garner_Final_Judgment.pdf">Final Judgment</a></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-title-field field-type-text field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><h1>Garner v. Ladner</h1> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-case-number field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label"><h2>Case Number</h2></div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even ">Civil Action No. L-88-13-CA</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-addthis field-type-addthis field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:title="Garner v. Ladner - Southern Poverty Law Center" addthis:url="/seeking-justice/case-docket/garner-v-ladner"><a href=" " class="addthis_button_facebook" aria-label="Facebook: Share this page"></a> <a href=" " class="addthis_button_twitter" aria-label="Twitter: Share this page"></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:07:27 +0000 admin 2167 at Vietnamese Fishermen's Association v. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan /seeking-justice/case-docket/vietnamese-fishermens-association-v-knights-ku-klux-klan <div class="field field-name-field-case-popular-name field-type-text field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><h2>Vietnamese Fishermen Case</h2> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><p><span class="body"><strong>Ending Klan intimidation<br /> <span style="font-weight: normal;">In 1981, armed Klansmen cruised Galveston Bay and practiced guerrilla tactics at secret paramilitary camps. They tried to destroy Vietnamese-Americans' fishing businesses by burning their boats and threatening their lives.</span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: normal;">Fearful of competition from the Vietnamese, the white fishermen had invited the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, to send a message to the Vietnamese before the start of the shrimping season.</span></p> <p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Klan group trained in the use of grenades, explosives, weapons, techniques of ambush and hand-to-hand combat, all in preparation for what they believed was an impending "race war."</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Klan Grand Dragon Louis Beam held several rallies and cross burnings in the Galveston Bay area. Then, on March 15, armed and hooded Klansmen embarked on "a boat ride" with a figure hung in effigy and a small cannon on board. The boat docked near the home of a Vietnamese man and terrorized his family.</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Center attorneys filed a lawsuit that stopped the Klan's terror campaign and shut down its paramilitary training bases.</span></strong></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-publish-date field-type-date field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label"><h2>Date Filed</h2></div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><span class="date-display-single">April 16, 1981</span></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-case-disposition field-type-text-long field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label"><h2>Date(s) of Disposition</h2></div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><p>07/15/1981: Preliminary Injunction issued against the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (518 F. Supp 993)<br /> 06/03/1982: Permanent Injunction issued and final order (543 F. Supp 198)</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-case-status field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label"><h2>Status</h2></div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even ">Closed</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-case-court field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label"><h2>Court where filed</h2></div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even ">USDC Southern District of Texas</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-issue-area field-type-entityreference field-label-above"> <div class="field-label"><h2>Issue Area</h2></div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><a href="/issues/hate-and-extremism">Hate &amp; Extremism</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-case-plaintiffs field-type-text-long field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label"><h2>Plaintiffs</h2></div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even ">Vietnamese fishermen who were terrorized by armed members of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-case-defendants field-type-text-long field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label"><h2>Defendants</h2></div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even ">Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc.; Louis Beam, Grand Dragon, KKK; various other Klan members; and members of the American Fishermen&#039;s Coalition</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-case-landmark field-type-list-boolean field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even ">Landmark Case</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-title-field field-type-text field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><h1>Vietnamese Fishermen&#039;s Association v. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan</h1> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-case-number field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label"><h2>Case Number</h2></div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even ">H-81-895</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-addthis field-type-addthis field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even "><div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:title="Vietnamese Fishermen&#039;s Association v. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan - Southern Poverty Law Center" addthis:url="/seeking-justice/case-docket/vietnamese-fishermens-association-v-knights-ku-klux-klan"><a href=" " class="addthis_button_facebook" aria-label="Facebook: Share this page"></a> <a href=" " class="addthis_button_twitter" aria-label="Twitter: Share this page"></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:00:26 +0000 admin 2217 at