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Advocates Take ICE Back to Court Requesting Enforcement of Previous Ruling to Protect People in Custody from COVID-19

June 25, 2020

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Last night, civil rights advocates filed a motion to enforce a preliminary injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Central Division of California, seeking to enforce U.S. District Judge Jesus Bernal’s...

SPLC Releases Updates to Whose Heritage Dataset

June 24, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today released an update to its Whose Heritage report which tracks public symbols of the Confederacy across the United States. The report shows that nearly 1,800...

SPLC Action Submits Statement After “Police Use of Force and Community Relations” Hearing on June 16

June 24, 2020

WASHINGTON — Yesterday, the SPLC Action Fund submitted a statement to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee calling on senators to consider the minimum requirements needed to reform the policing system following the recent murders...

After Failing to Act, DeSantis Shamefully and Dishonestly Scapegoats Migrant Farmworkers for Rising COVID-19 Cases

June 23, 2020

Miami, Fla. – The Migrant Service Providers, a coalition of over 40 organizations across South Florida, released the following statement in response to Governor DeSantis’s inaccurate and racist scapegoating of migrant farmworkers...

SPLC: Kentucky Election Poll Closures 'a Recipe for Disaster'

June 23, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement about Kentucky's primary elections today is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center: "Today, the state of Kentucky follows states like Wisconsin and...

SPLC Statement on Trump Administration Executive Order Expanding Immigration Restrictions

June 23, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center issued the following statement by Meredith Stewart, senior supervising attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, regarding the Trump administration's executive order...

SPLC Statement on Noose Found in Bubba Wallace’s Garage at Talladega Superspeedway

June 22, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Lecia Brooks issued the following statement after a noose was found in Bubba Wallace’s garage stall at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. “It is extremely troubling, yet...

SPLC Action Fund Statement on Trump’s Rally in Tulsa Tonight

June 20, 2020

TULSA, Okla. — SPLC Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the below statement following President Trump’s rally tonight in Tulsa, Okla., the day after Juneteenth and near the site of the 1921 massacre that left up...

SPLC denounces violent killing of incarcerated man by guards in Florida prison

June 20, 2020

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - An incarcerated man at Lake County Correctional Institution near Orlando died on Friday, June 19 a day after sustaining life-threatening injuries from corrections officers. The officers involved have been put...

SPLC Action Fund Statement on President Trump’s Rally in Tulsa, Okla.

June 19, 2020

TULSA, Okla. — Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang released the following statement ahead of President Trump’s rally on Saturday in Tulsa, Okla. — the day after Juneteenth...

SPLC Action Fund Statement on Bill to Make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday

June 19, 2020

WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang released the statement below following the introduction today of a bill in the U.S. Senate to recognize Juneteenth as a federal holiday: “The...

SPLC Statement on Removal of Confederate Portraits from U.S. Capitol on Juneteenth

June 19, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Lecia Brooks issued the following statement after portraits of Confederate leaders Robert Hunter, James Orr, Howell Cobb, and Charles Crisp were removed from the U.S. Capitol...

SPLC Action Fund: Facebook Removes Trump’s Re-Election Campaign Ads for Using Nazi Symbols

June 18, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — SPLC Action Fund’s Lecia Brooks released the following statement after Facebook removed Trump campaign ads that used a red upside-down triangle. Trump later claimed that the symbol is used by Antifa, but it is...

SPLC Action Fund Statement on Supreme Court’s Decision on DACA

June 18, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was arbitrary and capricious. The following statement can be...

Immigration Attorneys in Deep South Win Protections to Legal Access, CDC Compliance As Pandemic Rages On

June 17, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. – A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia today ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to implement a number of measures to protect detained people’s access to counsel...

SPLC Action Fund Statement on Republican Bill on Police Reform

June 17, 2020

WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang released the statement below on the introduction of the Justice Act, the Senate GOP police reform legislation by Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.): “...

SPLC Action Fund Statement regarding the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Police Use of Force and Community Relations

June 16, 2020

W ASHINGTON — Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund President and Chief Executive Office Margaret Huang released the following statement regarding today’s Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Police Use of Force and Community...

SPLC Announces up to $30 Million Investment in Voter Registration and Mobilization in Deep South States

June 16, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced it is investing up to $30 million from its endowment in voter outreach organizations in the Deep South to increase voter registration and participation...

SPLC: Federal Court Rules in Favor of Alabama Voters during COVID-19 Pandemic

June 15, 2020

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Today, in a decision that will protect the health and right to vote of medically vulnerable Alabamians, a federal court waived onerous absentee ballot requirements in at least Jefferson, Mobile, and Lee...

SPLC Statement: U.S. Supreme Court Rules that Employers Cannot Fire Workers Because of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation

June 15, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Today, in a 6-3 ruling written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the United States Supreme Court ruled that “[a]n employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law.” The ruling was in...

SPLC Statement on Rayshard Brooks Killing

June 13, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Southern Poverty Law Center President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the following statement in response to the Atlanta police killing of Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, Friday...

SPLC, Allies Distribute Florida Voter Registration Guidelines Summarizing Recent Ruling

June 12, 2020

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – To address ongoing confusion regarding the recent federal court decision ruling affirming the ability for Floridians with past felony convictions who cannot afford outstanding legal financial obligations to...

SPLC Action Fund Statement on Trump Administration Rolling Back Health Protections for LGBTQ+ People

June 12, 2020

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its final rule that rolls back critical anti-discrimination protections in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). HHS plans to abandon the...

SPLC Statement on Trump Administration’s Effort to End Asylum

June 12, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, regarding the Trump administration’s proposed...

SPLC Action Fund’s Lecia Brooks Responds to GOP-led Panel Decision to Remove Confederate Names on Military Assets

June 11, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The SPLC Action Fund’s Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee adopting an amendment which will allow the Pentagon to remove the names of...

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