Can Police Officers join the Ku Klux Klan?
Neb. court upholds firing of trooper for Klan link By ERIC OLSON – 52 minutes ago OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday upheld the firing of a State Patrol trooper for his ties to the Ku Klux Klan. Justice John Gerrard wrote that Robert Henderson voluntarily associated with an organization that uses violence and terror to oppose the state’s founding principles of equality and tolerance. Henderson, a trooper for 18 years, was dismissed in 2006 after the patrol discovered he had joined a racist group. He told an investigator he joined the Knights Party — which has described itself as the most active Klan organization in the United States — in June 2004. An arbitrator said Henderson’s firing violated his First Amendment rights, among other things, but Lancaster County District Judge Jeffre Cheuvront overturned that decision. Henderson’s attorney, Vincent Valentino, had argued to the high court that arbitrators, not judges, have the final say. He said Friday that an appea
