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The following are SPLC articles, statements and reports about several of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members and advisers.
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With today’s executive orders and those expected later this week, President Trump is following through with policies that match the ugly bigotry of his campaign. These orders will only deepen the wounds of division that Trump promised to heal.
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The SPLC today released two reports documenting how President-elect Donald Trump’s own words have sparked hate incidents across the country and had a profoundly negative effect on the nation’s schools.
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The following statement is from Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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More than 400,000 people (updated Wednesday, November 16, 2016) have signed the SPLC’s petition calling on President-elect Donald Trump to drop his appointment of Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist and senior counselor. The petition was launched yesterday.
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Yesterday, I watched Hillary Clinton give a gracious concession speech, one that was filled with hope and a touch of reassurance. It was, in some ways, a celebration of our democracy and its stability, which depends on the peaceful transition of power.
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Today, we’re facing a new reality – a president-elect who has denigrated people because of their race, their religion, their ethnicity, their gender, and more.
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In an interview with a documentary filmmaker, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill attacked automatic voter registration as the “sorry and lazy way out” and cited the sacrifices made by civil rights leaders like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) as a reason not to make voting more accessible to more Americans.
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The United States has always been defined by a fundamental belief in the rule of law. Indeed, it's a cornerstone of our democracy, one that separates our nation from so many others.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center today called on Alabama Governor Robert Bentley to release the letter delivered today from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announcing that it is opening a wide-ranging investigation into the conditions in Alabama’s prisons.
