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Roberta Kaplan is not fazed by controversial cases. She played a prominent role in legalizing gay marriage and cofounded the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund in the wake of the #MeToo movement. These days, Kaplan is working to hold the leaders of the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally accountable, using an obscure federal law—the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871—to argue that the rally’s organizers conspired to commit violence. The defendants are two dozen neo-Nazis, white supremacists and extremist groups connected to the Charlottesville march and include the host of internet talk show Radical Agenda and the founder of neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. But Kaplan, 53, is not daunted by the notoriety of the defendants and hopes the case, Sines v. Kessler, will clear a path through the courts to fight violence driven by hatred.