#Trump Administration Attack on #SouthernPovertyLawCenter Puts #Democracy at Risk
Targeting Southern Poverty Law Center, a major civil #rights organization, is the Trump administration's latest effort to punish groups it doesn't like.
#splc #civilrights #maga #hatecrime
Anti-LGBTQ+ activist to testify before Congress against Southern Poverty Law Center
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/tyler-oneil-daily-signal-splc
#MonteMadar vs #FarRight Idiot and Lies About #SouthernPovertyLawCenter
#MayaWiley on #GrumpyCatBlanche Bullshit #Lawsuit Against The #SouthernPovertyLawCenter
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/30/southern_poverty_law_center_indictment
Attorney and civil rights activist Maya Wiley responds to the Justice Department’s fraud case against the Southern Poverty Law Center, which centers on the group’s history of paying individuals to infiltrate white supremacist groups in order to monitor their activities. The SPLC has rejected the charges as politically motivated, saying its informant program was used to monitor threats of violence and that the information gathered was routinely shared with local and federal law enforcement. “It’s political persecution,” says Wiley, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a civil rights coalition that includes the SPLC. “There’s a pattern in the development of tyranny in countries across the globe where the person who wants to have that power finds ways to discredit the lawful advocacy of organizations that are fighting to ensure that democracy survives,” she says.
DOJ Decides It’s Going To Try To Prosecute The Southern Poverty Law Center Out Of Existence
The Justice Department case against the #SouthernPovertyLawCenter is nonsense, as a former Chief of the Fraud Office explains:
https://www.justsecurity.org/137171/indictment-southern-poverty-law-center-splc/
https://msmagazine.com/2026/04/24/southern-poverty-law-center-trump-civil-rights-feminist/
Trump’s #DOJ and the #EpsteinClass attacking the #SPLC just goes to show how far they will go to protect white men who hurt people.
The charges are based on bad-faith characterizations of payments SPLC made to informants in extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Trump’s DOJ is attempting to argue these payments counted as financial support. In reality, the SPLC’s work helped dismantle some of the country’s most prominent white supremacist groups.
It’s like Abandoned Victorian Doll Haunted by Unrepentant Nazis Stephen Miller just wasn’t getting quite the hardon from abusing Brown folks like he used to, time to step up the terror on social justice folks.
As imagined, legal scholars, ethicists, and anyone with common sense is decrying this as obscene.
#hatecrime #pervertedJustice #kakistocracy #southernpovertylawcenter
The U.S. Department of Justice’s criminal case against the Southern Poverty Law Center marks a stunning escalation in the federal government’s attacks and aggression toward civil rights organizations. A grand jury has indicted the SPLC on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering—allegations the organization has called false and politically motivated. The charges are rooted in bad-faith characterizations of payments SPLC made to informants in extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Trump's DOJ is attempting to argue these payments counted as financial support. In reality, the SPLC's work helped dismantle some of the country’s most prominent white supremacist groups. For feminist and civil rights groups, the indictment is the clearest sign yet of an escalating campaign to intimidate the nonprofit sector, criminalize civil rights advocacy and silence dissent. In their view, the administration is not only attacking outcomes or messages, but working to turn the machinery of government itself against advocacy groups: criminal law, regulatory scrutiny and national security frameworks.
"The indictment against the SPLC is very troubling, not only because of its flaws, but because of what it represents—an attack on the civil rights community itself. This week, they may have come for the SPLC. It’s unlikely it will stop there."
#SPLC #SouthernPovertyLawCenter #ToddBlanche #Trump #DOJ #corruption
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