So that facts, rather than everyone's idiosyncratic estimate of them, can have
a turn at center state, here is the actual text of the actual law CAN was found
to have violated in the Scott case according to the actual opinion of the court
actually printed in the book of federal cases that anyone can actually read if
they bother to, actually.

<<UNITED STATES CODE TITLE 42  § 1985. Conspiracy to interfere with civil
rights

(3) Depriving persons of rights or privileges

  If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire or go in disguise
on the highway or on the premises of another, for the purpose of depriving,
either directly or indirectly, any person or class of persons of the equal
protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws;
or for the purpose of preventing or hindering the constituted authorities of
any State or Territory from giving or securing to all persons within such State
or Territory the equal protection of the laws;  or if two or more persons
conspire to prevent by force, intimidation, or threat, any citizen who is
lawfully entitled to vote, from giving his support or advocacy in a legal
manner, toward or in favor of the election of any lawfully qualified person as
an elector for President or Vice President, or as a Member of Congress of the
United States; or to injure any citizen in person or property on account of
such support or advocacy;  in any case of conspiracy set forth in this section,
if one or more persons engaged therein do, or cause to be done, any act in
furtherance of the object of such conspiracy, whereby another is injured in his
person or property, or deprived of having and exercising any right or privilege
of a citizen of the United States, the party so injured or deprived may have an
 action for the recovery of damages occasioned by such injury or deprivation,
against any one or more of the conspirators.>>

Sounds like the law is describing the Klan, don't it now?  Well it's paragraph
3 of Title 42, Section 1985.  That's the law CAN was found by a jury to have
violated and which a federal court of appeals reviewed and upheld the jury
verdict on.

Yeti

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