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.
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.
We applaud Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ commitment to vigorously enforcing our nation’s hate crime laws.
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:
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.
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.
The following statement is about the Supreme Court’s decision today on Executive Order No. 13780.
BATESVILLE, Miss. – Rita still felt sore from giving birth a few days earlier. But in the early morning on March 28, she rose to make breakfast for her husband and children. She did not know they were all being watched.
The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) has adopted a new policy for the care of transgender prisoners after a transgender woman incarcerated in a Michigan prison campaigned, with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan (ACLU of Michigan), to receive the hormone therapy she was denied.
This weekend we’re featuring an op-ed by SPLC President Richard Cohen in The Daily Beast.
