The verdict Monday follows a two-week trial in an Austin federal court. The encounter happened on a Texas highway days before the 2020 election.

The verdict caps an emotionally charged, two-week trial in Austin federal court that reconstructed the high-speed confrontation on I-35.

An Austin jury could decide as soon as Monday whether six "Trump Train" drivers violated a federal law barring coordinated political intimidation.

A federal jury cleared all but one of six Trump supporters accused in a civil trial over the surrounding of a Biden-Harris campaign bus on a Texas highway days before the 2020 election. Why it matters: The defendants were accused in the lawsuit of violations including the Civil War-era 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act,

Six Trump supporters were accused of intimidating a Biden campaign bus in 2020. Both plaintiffs and defendants saw Monday’s verdict as a victory.

SAN MARCOS, Texas - A Texas jury found a San Antonio man liable in the "Trump train" federal civil lawsuit on Monday. On Monday, Sept. 23, the jury found a San Antonio man liable for $40,000 for conspiring to disrupt the Biden-Harris campaign and intimidate its supporters. The man organized the 2020 "Trump train."

A Texas federal jury cleared a group of former President Donald Trump supporters in a civil trial over a 'Trump Train' that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus in 2020. The trial focused on political intimidation,

Only one of the six Trump supporters who were sued in the civil trial was held responsible by the jury. A Texas man whose car brushed up against another as the caravan of vehicles dubbed the "Trump Train" raced down Interstate 35, was ordered to pay the bus driver $10,000 and another $30,000 in punitive damages.

Civil rights advocates hoped a guilty verdict would send a clear message about what constitutes political violence and intimidation.

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal jury in Texas on Monday cleared a group of former President Donald Trump supporters and found one driver liable in a civil trial over a so-called “Trump Train” that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus days before the 2020 election.