| Chief Leftist Stooge Greenblatt |
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) tuchis-lekkers has joined the District of Columbia Attorney General in a lawsuit against two extremist groups that allegedly helped organize the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol.
The leftist civil rights group and self appointed anti-Semitism watchdog said it helped identify defendants in the case.
A congressional panel is scrutinizing the insurrection and hundreds of participants have been charged with crimes. But the lawsuit is the first civil action addressing the Jan. 6 riot.
Five people died during the riot, including a Capitol Police officer, and 140 police were injured. Four officers who were present subsequently died by suicide.
Like a lawsuit that ended last month with judgments against alt-right organizers of a deadly 2017 far-right protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, the suit leverages the so-called Ku Klux Klan act. Dating from the post-Civil War era, the law gives governments the power to sue into bankruptcy entities that have sought to inhibit civil rights through violence. In 1983, the right to sue was extended to non-government entities and individuals.