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The SPLC today submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Justice for the remarks given by Attorney General Jeff Sessions Tuesday at the Alliance Defending Freedom’s Summit on Religious Liberty.
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The following statement, regarding Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ speech to the Alliance Defending Freedom planned for this evening, is by David Dinielli, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center:
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The following statement, regarding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) announcement this week of a new rule that will prohibit lenders from using arbitration agreements to block consumers from filing class action lawsuits, is by Sara Zampierin, senior staff attorney at the SPLC:
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Last weekend, President Trump tweeted a short video showing him wrestling a figure whose head had been replaced with CNN's logo.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center this week denounced a letter signed by 10 state attorneys general as “cruel and heartless” because it asks the Department of Justice to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center is assisting travelers who may be impacted by President Trump's Muslim ban. Parts of the ban were scheduled to take effect this week at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
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We applaud Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ commitment to vigorously enforcing our nation’s hate crime laws.
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The following statement regarding Liberty Counsel’s lawsuit against GuideStar, a website that used the SPLC’s hate group designation on its profiles of charity groups, is by SPLC President Richard Cohen:
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The Southern Poverty Law Center joined two other organizations this week in urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release immediate guidance and precise criteria outlining how the department intends to implement the Supreme Court decision that allows the Muslim ban to take partial effect.
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A federal judge today declared the mental health care system in Alabama prisons to be “horrendously inadequate” – an unconstitutional failure that has resulted in a “skyrocketing suicide rate” among prisoners.
