Voting Rights Organizations File Appeal to Protect Colorado Voters from Intimidation

Yesterday, Free Speech For Individuals and co-counsel Bryan Sells filed our attraction temporary within the US Courtroom of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on behalf of NAACP Colorado, League of Ladies Voters of Colorado, and Mi Familia Vota. The attraction challenges the district court docket’s rulings that america Election Integrity Plan (USEIP) and three of its leaders shouldn’t be held answerable for voter intimidation, the place the group’s brokers, a few of them armed, used public voter lists to interrogate voters of their properties after the 2020 election, publicized their “findings,” and threatened extreme penalties for anybody they believed to be concerned in election fraud.

Earlier than trial started, the district court docket dominated that the group couldn’t be sued beneath both the Voting Rights Act of 1965 or the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1971 merely as a result of the group is unincorporated. The district court docket then dominated in favor of the remaining defendants at trial.

Within the attraction temporary, the plaintiffs argue that the district court docket’s judgment was the results of authorized and factual errors that “had been extremely prejudicial, narrowing the plaintiffs’ claims past recognition and limiting the presentation of their case at trial.” Because the temporary explains, nobody sad with an election consequence has the precise “to strike concern into the hearts of their fellow residents . . . with door-to-door vigilantism backed by threats of violence,” and that the district court docket’s judgment, which “could have unwittingly validated such efforts . . . relaxation[ed] on error after error that render it infirm.” The plaintiffs have requested oral argument.

To learn the temporary, click on right here.

To be taught extra in regards to the case, click on right here.