by jmerritt | Jun 18, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — This week, Donald Trump’s Justice Department opened a new front in its war on political opponents, targeting California Governor Gavin Newsom, his wife, and her nonprofits. A civil rights leader called out the Southern Poverty Law Center prosecution...
by jmerritt | Jun 15, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — California Governor Gavin Newsom revealed today that Donald Trump’s Justice Department is investigating him and his wife, with federal agents knocking on the doors of family friends and former employees, all in search of a nonexistent crime. Newsom...
by jmerritt | Jun 11, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — This week, new reporting reveals Trump’s team spent months in secret Situation Room meetings trying to bury his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill held another sham hearing to prop up a prosecution that is falling apart in...
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...
