by jmerritt | Jun 9, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Jim Jordan’s SPLC Hearing Today Made the Same Bogus Case as DOJ’s Ridiculous Charges and Amounted to a De Facto Defense of the KKK and other White Nationalist Groups Today, Jim Jordan’s House Judiciary Committee held a second sham hearing targeting the Southern...
by jmerritt | Jun 9, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
The Hill: Trump’s vendetta fuels baseless charges against Southern Poverty Law Center The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has fought racism and worked with law enforcement and others to bring violent white supremacists to justice since 1973, is drawing...
by jmerritt | Jun 9, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
New York Times: How the Drive to Find a Conspiracy Against Trump Rocked the Justice Dept. It was an investigation long sought by Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, and it was announced not in court papers, but through a haze of cigar smoke on Joe Rogan’s podcast in...
by jmerritt | Jun 8, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Tomorrow, House Republicans in the Judiciary Committee are holding yet another hearing attacking the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) after the Trump DOJ indicted the group as part of Trump’s vindictive weaponization campaign. This time, it appears House Judiciary...
by jmerritt | Jun 5, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — Trump’s Justice Department is doubling down on its prosecution of one of America’s most storied civil rights organizations, the White House is moving to turn the federal grants process into a political loyalty test, and a right-wing think tank that...
by jmerritt | May 29, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — The Trump Justice Department filed criminal charges against a civil rights organization — for the same informant work it once shared directly with the FBI. The Treasury Department moved to strangle the infrastructure nonprofits depend on to launch....
