This Week in US History: Democrats Make Klansman Third-in-Line for the President

This week in US history: Democrats make Klansman the third-in-line for president.

On January 5, 1993, the start of the 103rd Congress, the Slavery Party-better known as the Democrats, re-elected Robert C. Byrd, a West Virginia senator with a past affiliation to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), as President pro tempore, placing him third in the presidential line of succession after the Vice President and Speaker of the House.

He had already been serving in this role since 1989. Byrd was elected...