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Eliminating line speed limits at poultry plants would increase injuries to workers and violate federal law and regulations, the SPLC said today in a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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A federal court has upheld the firing of an Alabama police officer who was let go after the SPLC exposed his ties to a white supremacist group.
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By appearing at the Values Voter Summit, President Trump is lending the legitimacy of his office to a hate group that relentlessly demonizes LGBT people and works to deny them of their equal rights.
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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a package of 10 criminal justice reform and reinvestment bills earlier this year that will reduce the state’s prison population by 10 percent and scale down the parole/probation population by 12 percent over the next decade.
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Today, HB 1523 went into effect in Mississippi. The law allows business owners and government workers to refuse service to LGBT people based on their religious beliefs.
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Police in riot gear. Protesters blocking highways. A heated discussion about the acquittal of a white police officer for his role in the shooting of a black man.
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Una llamada de un oficial de la policía en Misisipí el año pasado a Inmigración y Control de Aduanas, conocido como ICE por sus siglas en inglés, resultó en que un hombre desarmado – quien inicialmente servía de testigo cuando el policía detuvo un auto en tránsito – fuera baleado y quedara prostrado en la calle sangrando por la herida, según lo muestra el video de una cámara portátil policial que obtuvo el SPLC. El oficial llamó a ICE porque necesitaba un intérprete en español.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued guidance today setting forth the views of the Department of Justice about how federal agencies should protect religious freedom.
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A police officer’s call to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Mississippi last year left an unarmed man – initially a bystander to a traffic stop – shot and bleeding in the street, body camera footage obtained by the SPLC shows. The officer called ICE because he needed a Spanish interpreter.
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The SPLC, Muslim Advocates and Americans United for Separation of Church and State jointly filed a lawsuit yesterday against the Trump administration, seeking to compel the release of critically important details about how a person can obtain a waiver under the president’s Muslim ban executive order.
