The Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith has asked a federal court to prohibit the Ku Klux Klan from operating paramilitary training camps in Texas. In announcing the filing of an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. district court in Houston, ADL civil rights director Justin Finger declared that “armed racists, pathological haters of Blacks, Jews and other minorities, are engaging in guerrilla warfare training that could expose society to bloodshed and violence.” The ADL brief asked the federal court to uphold the constitutionality of a Texas statute that bans private “military companies or organizations” and to issue an injunction directed against the KKK.
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