Mississippi Democratic Congressman Bennie Thompson has filed a civil lawsuit in Washington, DC against Donald Trump for his role in stoking a mob of domestic terrorists to attack the Capitol on January 6th, the Associated Press reports.

Using a Reconstruction-era law known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, Thompson also named Rudy Giuliani, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, all of whom pushed the use of violence on January 6th as an attempt to install Trump into a second term as president after Trump lost the November election to President Joe Biden.

“The carefully orchestrated series of events that unfolded at the Save America rally and the storming of the Capitol was no accident or coincidence,” the suit says. “It was the intended and foreseeable culmination of a carefully coordinated campaign to interfere with the legal process required to confirm the tally of votes cast in the Electoral College.”

Passed in 1871, the Ku Klux Klan Act explicitly prevents individuals or groups from using violence to intimidate Congress or federal officials from carrying out their Constitutional duties.  It was passed in response to the rise of the KKK and their use of intimidation tactics to scare or harm Union officials in the post-Civil War era.

“Inciting a riot, or attempting to interfere with the congressional efforts to ratify the results of the election that are commended by the Constitution, could not conceivably be within the scope of ordinary responsibilities of the president,” Joseph Sellers, a Washington lawyer who along with the NAACP filed the lawsuit on Thompson’s behalf, said in an interview with the AP.