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The following statement is from David Dinielli, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center, on President Trump's nomination of Jeff Mateer to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas:
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One of the highest awards the Mexican government bestows outside the nation was recently presented to Dan Werner, director of the SPLC’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative (SIFI), for tireless work protecting immigrants from discrimination, exploitation and abuse.
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In the wake of the deadly violence in Charlottesville, the “alt-right” movement is continuing to use social media and pop culture to indoctrinate young people with its hateful ideology, but teachers can take action in the classroom to counter its influence, according to the latest issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance magazine released today.
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The SPLC joined other civil rights organizations and members of the clergy today in telling the U.S. Supreme Court that President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban is an unconstitutional violation of religious freedom.
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History was repeating itself for U.W. Clemon.
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As events in Charlottesville last month reflect, President Trump’s incendiary rhetoric has energized the white supremacist movement.
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As Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program this week, he said, “We are a people of compassion.”
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The SPLC is currently facing a coordinated attack by far-right extremist groups we’ve named as hate groups because they vilify the LGBT community, immigrants and Muslims. Their latest megaphone is none other than FOX News.
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A solution to fix the “horrendously inadequate” mental health care provided to people in Alabama prisons may require a series of evidentiary hearings, a federal judge indicated this week at a status hearing.
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Several New Orleans-based bail bond companies, along with their insurance underwriters, have collectively overcharged poor defendants nearly $5 million over the last 12 years, in violation of state law, according to a complaint the SPLC filed today with the Louisiana Department of Insurance.
