This recent case could be useful to understanding the law’s potential relevance to a Trump prosecution for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, Jordan_S_Rubin writes.
, Jessica Levinson noted the law’s Reconstruction-era roots and, accordingly, deemed it a “sad but fitting reality that federal statutes used to
charge Southern white people and members of the Ku Klux Klan with using terrorist tactics to prevent Black people from votingAs for the law’s potential application to Trump, the law professor noted that one way could be the “fake electors” scheme that was hatched to nullify votes for Biden. Levinson also pointed to Trump’s infamous pressuring of Georgia officials to “Any appeal in Mackey’s case could already be significant as to the role of criminal law against disinformation.
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