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‘Adopted with the intent to discriminate’: Florida Advocates and Leading Expert Witness Conclude Testimony Challenging Florida’s Racist, Anti-immigrant Law

January 14, 2021

MIAMI – Acclaimed U.S. historian Allan J. Lichtman appeared in trial as an expert witness in the legal challenge to Florida’s anti-sanctuary law, or S.B. 168, testifying that the legislation was designed in close collaboration...

SPLC: Trump’s Reckless Border Trip Must Be Cancelled

January 11, 2021

ALAMO, Texas – In response to the president’s planned visit to the border on Tuesday, Efrén Olivares, deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project, released the following statement. “For...

Hearing begins Monday to challenge retaliation against plaintiffs in Florida solitary confinement lawsuit

January 10, 2021

Tallahassee, Fla. — A five-day evidentiary hearing begins Monday in Harvard v. Inch . on Plaintiffs’ motion for a protective order asking the court to stop retaliation, chilling or harassing conduct against people who are...

Immigrant Rights Advocates Ask Court to Block Trump Administration Attempt to Thwart Court Order

January 07, 2021

SAN DIEGO — Immigrant rights advocates moved for a temporary restraining order to block the Trump administration’s latest attempt to circumvent an earlier court order prohibiting the government from applying an asylum ban to...

SPLC: President Trump’s Quest to Steal the Election Endangers Lives at the Capitol

January 06, 2021

WASHINGTON, D.C. – At President Trump’s prodding, thousands of extremists have stormed the Capitol complex in Washington D.C. to prevent lawmakers from certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. Lecia...

Southern Poverty Law Center denounces lack of justice in Jacob Blake case

January 06, 2021

KENOSHA, Wis. –Earlier today, Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley announced that the police officers responsible for shooting Jacob Blake in the back will not face criminal charges. Two officers fired seven shots at...

Georgians sue to stop extreme delays in state unemployment process

January 06, 2021

ATLANTA – Multiple Georgia residents have filed a lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) and its commissioner, Mark Butler, to compel the department to perform its duties under Georgia law to timely process...

SPLC: Contested Congressional Certification of Presidential Election Today “Deeply Distressing Statement against Democracy and Elections”

January 06, 2021

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement about the certification today in the U.S. Congress of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College is by Margaret Huang, President and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law...

Ahead of January Trial, Federal Judge Strikes Down Provision of Florida’s Anti-Sanctuary Law

December 21, 2020

MIAMI – United States District Judge Beth Bloom has issued an order blocking Florida law enforcement agencies from transporting persons in their custody outside of their jurisdiction for the purpose of handing them over to...

SPLC, ACLU of Georgia File Amicus Brief on behalf of AME Church, Other Voting Rights Organizations in RNC Lawsuit Concerning Dropbox Hours in Runoff Elections

December 17, 2020

ATLANTA – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and ACLU of Georgia, representing the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and other interested parties, filed an amicus curiae brief urging the Superior Court of Fulton...

SPLC Marks Five-year Anniversary of Groundbreaking Suit Finding Gay “Conversion” Program Unconscionable and Fraudulent

December 17, 2020

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Tomorrow is the five-year anniversary of the settlement in Michael Ferguson, et al., v. JONAH , a first-of-its-kind lawsuit brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and co-counsel partners on behalf...

SPLC statement on the passing of Jeannie Graetz

December 16, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Jeannie Graetz, who with her late husband, the Rev. Robert S. Graetz Jr., supported the Montgomery Bus Boycott and endured bombs and threats as a white couple aiding the historic boycott, died this morning. Her...

SPLC Action Fund on the Electoral College Vote Today

December 14, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement about the meeting of the Electoral College is by Margaret Huang, President and CEO of the SPLC Action Fund: “Today, electors in the Electoral College will assemble in all 50 state...

SPLC Action Fund Applauds Passage of National Defense Authorization Act, Which Will Remove Confederate Names from Military Bases

December 11, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by an overwhelming, veto-proof majority of 84 to 13. President Trump has threatened to veto the bill because it will rename ten military...

Alarming Analysis Shows 14 Hate Groups Received Millions in Loans from Trump Administration Through Paycheck Protection Program

December 10, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. — Reporting by NBC News on Wednesday found that 14 organizations designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) or the Anti-Defamation League have received funding from the Paycheck...

Federal Lawsuit Against Alabama Department of Corrections Long Overdue

December 09, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. – On Wednesday, the United States Department of Justice sued the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) for the state’s repeated failure to meet its obligations to incarcerated men in Alabama under the Eighth...

Sentencing of Neo-Nazi Deserves Praise, But Offers Devastating Reminder of the Pervasive Hate Threatening Public Safety, says the SPLC

December 09, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. – Today, Johnny Roman Garza, a 21-year-old member of a Neo-Nazi group called the Atomwaffen Division, was sentenced to 16 months in prison for threatening a Jewish journalist and conspiring to threaten both...

SPLC Action Fund Responds to Cobb County Elections Announcement on Re-Opening of Early Voting Sites for Runoff Elections

December 09, 2020

ATLANTA – The following statement responding to today’s Cobb County Elections announcement about the re-opening of general election early vote sites for the January 5 runoff elections, following outreach by SPLC Action Fund and...

SPLC Action Fund Responds to House Passage of the National Defense Authorization Act by a Veto-Proof Majority

December 09, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The SPLC Action Fund’s Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to the House of Representatives 335-78 bipartisan passing of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by a veto-proof...

SPLC: Fifth Circuit Decision Affirms Parents’ Right to Sue Mississippi for a Uniform Public Education System

December 08, 2020

JACKSON, Miss. – In a 9-8 decision yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied Mississippi state officials’ request for rehearing in Williams v. Reeves after a 3-member panel of the court ruled in April that...

Alabama Must Spend COVID-19 Money by Year’s End or Return it to Federal Government

December 02, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. – Alabama has just over a month to spend about $850 million in coronavirus relief funds allocated to the state by Congress. If that money is not spent by Dec. 30, it will return to the U.S. Treasury. Last week,...

SPLC Announces $2M Vote Your Voice Grants for Runoff Elections in Georgia, Louisiana

November 30, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announces an additional investment of over $2 million across 10 organizations that are leading voter mobilization efforts in Georgia and Louisiana as part of its...

Settlement Reached with City of Montgomery in Lawsuit Challenging Criminalization of People Asking for Assistance

November 24, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – In a settlement announced today, the city of Montgomery has agreed that it will immediately stop arresting or ticketing people who panhandle. The settlement serves as a resolution to a lawsuit filed in February...

SPLC Action: Historic Nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas for DHS Secretary Paves Way for Agency to Support a Reimagined, Humane Immigration System

November 23, 2020

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden today announced that he will nominate Alejandro Mayorkas, who served as director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS...

Amicus Briefs Filed in Support of Challenge to Trump Administration Policy That Denies Asylum Seekers Safety & Legal Rights

November 23, 2020

Amnesty International USA, the Association of Pro Bono Counsel, Refugees International, and a group of immigration law professors have filed amicus briefs in a case challenging the so-called Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP),...

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