by jmerritt | May 1, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — The Trump Justice Department’s fraud case against the Southern Poverty Law Center is unraveling, with new court filings showing the FBI knew about and benefited from the very informant program it is now prosecuting as a crime. Meanwhile, the Trump...
by jmerritt | May 1, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
MS NOW: DOJ rushed indictment of SPLC, according to whistleblower reports A senior Trump administration Justice Department official ordered federal prosecutors in Alabama to “rush through” a controversial indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center despite concerns...
by jmerritt | Apr 29, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Key Points: “On Tuesday, however, the law center pushed back firmly against the accusation that it sought to promote, not dismantle, far-right groups, asserting in court papers that information gleaned from its informants was shared at least three times with law...
by jmerritt | Apr 27, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Last week, the president of the dark-money slop machine that is the Capital Research Center (CRC), Scott Walter, published an op-ed in the right-wing Daily Wire — continuing the CRC’s campaign against the Southern Poverty Law Center as Donald Trump weaponizes his...
by jmerritt | Apr 24, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — The Trump Justice Department is criminally prosecuting the Southern Poverty Law Center, the 55-year-old civil rights organization that dismantled the Ku Klux Klan in federal court, over its use of paid informants to infiltrate white supremacist...
