President Trump’s recent executive order temporarily barring immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries is effectively a Muslim ban that violates the First Amendment, according to an amicus brief filed today by the SPLC and Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
The SPLC and a broad coalition of advocates and legal scholars today urged Florida’s Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners to uphold a county resolution that has saved millions of tax dollars and improved community relations with police by not requiring officers to detain people for immigration authorities in county jails.
Barak Goodman’s new documentary, “Oklahoma City,” is far and away the best treatment, in print or on film, of the 1995 bombing that left 168 people dead. It is accurate, revealing, smart in its analysis, and studiously avoids the temptation to go down the countless rabbit trails blazed by clueless conspiracy theorists.
The following statement is by Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project.
President Trump last week resurrected a big lie from the campaign trail, claiming that he lost the popular vote because as many as 5 million people voted illegally – all for his opponent.
President Trump has marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day by signing executive orders that are outright assaults on Muslims, immigrants and refugees.
The chief strategist in the White House, a man who rallied a growing white nationalist movement behind Donald Trump, is now telling the news media to “keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.”
Betsy DeVos is simply not qualified to be the next education secretary.
President Trump is poised to order an investigation into alleged voter fraud in an attempt to back up his claim that he lost the popular vote only because 3 to 5 million undocumented immigrants voted illegally.
The following are SPLC articles, statements and reports about several of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members and advisers.
