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Opinion | Jack Smith’s surprise weapon against Trump has a long civil rights history
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'Little-known Reconstruction-era federal laws could provide prosecutors with a clear path to convict Donald Trump,' writes LevinsonJessica.

to allow him to win, that would invalidate the votes of millions who voted for Biden. Indeed, if Trump’s scheme succeeded, it would have harmed every voter who cast a ballot for Biden, not just those who voted for Biden in the states at issue.Whichever statute Smith’s team is using, both are unfortunately apt given their origins. As a recentnotes, Congress “enacted these Reconstruction-era statutes under its authority to enforce the protections of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Everything that’s old is new again. And disenfranchising Black voters, who were key to Biden’s victory, is one way Trump sought to steal the 2020 election. Many of the votes that Trump sought to trash

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