On Friday, Donald Trump lost an effort to dismiss lawsuits by members of Congress and two police officers accusing him and others of sparking the Capitol riot.
President Trump's January 6 rally speech was similar to telling an excited mob that corn-dealers starve the poor in front of their home, according to Judge Mehta.
If you don't fight like hell, we're not going to have a country anymore, said Trump in that speech.
Thousands of his supporters invaded the Capitol complex. Lawmakers fled the Senate and House chambers to hide from the mob as they delayed votes to certify that Biden had won the Electoral College vote.
The ruling was Trump's second major legal loss.
On Thursday, a judge in New York state court ordered Trump and two of his adult children to answer questions under oath by investigators for the state Attorney General, who is conducting a probe of the former president and the Trump Organization.
Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump Jr. were granted permission by Mehta to be dismissed from the lawsuits. The judge said he would grant the congressman's request to dismiss the case against him.
Mehta denied dismissal requests from the Oath Keepers and the leader of the Proud Boys.
11 members of the House of Representatives and two Capitol Police officers are being sued.
The Ku Klux Act of 1871 was enacted to prevent extra-legal violence by white supremacist groups against freed Blacks in the South after the Civil War.
There is a section of the law that states that federal officers can be prevented from discharging their duties or accepting or holding office by means of force, intimidation or threats.
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