1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Restoration of Civil Rights Act of 2019 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Section 1 of the Act entitled An Act to enforce the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and for other purposes (commonly known as the Civil Rights Act of 1871 ), approved April 20, 1871 (17 Stat. 13, chapter 22) was enacted by Congress to provide a Federal forum to which a civil cause of action could be brought by any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof, for the deprivation of any right, privilege or immunity secured by the Constitution or by Federal statute. (2) Congress was granted the authority to enact the Civil Rights Act of 1871 by sections 1 and 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment of Constitution of the United States. (3) Popularly known as the Anti-Ku Klux Klan Act , the statute was enacted to provide a Federal remedy to fight the Klan’s reign of terror in the southern states, as reflected in President Grant’s message to Congress on March 23, 1871, which stated that the Klan had render[ed] life and property insecure and that the power to correct these evils [was] beyond the control of state authorities . (4) A Joint Committee from each House of Congress addressed the problem, and the Committee’s product was the Civil Rights Act of 1871, from which section 1979 of the Revised Statutes was derived ( 42 U.S.C. 1983 ), which reads as follows: Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such