July 19, 2022
BIRMINGHAM – TODAY The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama (ACLU-AL) filed litigation on behalf of Tiara Young Hudson challenging the constitutionality of the Alabama Judicial...
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July 18, 2022
WASHINGTON D.C. – TODAY The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) , the League of Women Voters of Alabama (LWVAL) , the League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) , Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP and Stand-Up Mobile submitted...
July 18, 2022
ATLANTA – TODAY , July 18, 2022, Georgians called for the court to grant immediate relief through a preliminary injunction and block the portion of anti-voter law, S.B. 202 , that criminalizes Georgians providing food or water to...
July 15, 2022
NEW YORK - Today, the Southern Prisons Coalition, a group of civil and human rights organizations, submitted a new report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination on the devastating...
July 15, 2022
COBB COUNTY, Ga. – Over community objections, the Cobb County School Board last night approved a policy that allows the district superintendent to authorize certain school employees to carry guns on school property, including...
July 13, 2022
ATLANTA – Today, four survivors of the Stewart Detention Detention Center (Stewart) in collaboration with the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, El Refugio, Georgia Detention Watch, Georgia Human Rights Clinic, Georgia Latino...
July 08, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released new policy guidance for immigrant workers involved in worksite labor disputes on how to seek the DOL’s support to receive immigration-related prosecutorial discretion...
June 30, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Stephanie M. Alvarez-Jones, staff attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project , responding to today’s Supreme Court’s ruling on...
June 30, 2022
ATLANTA -- Earlier today, U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee approved a preliminary settlement in a lawsuit filed against the Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) over the payment and processing of unemployment insurance benefits...
June 29, 2022
PALATKA, Fla. – On Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center raised a billboard in support of the Putnam Alliance For Equity and Justice , which has been advocating for the removal of a Confederate monument from the entrance to...
June 29, 2022
PALATKA, Fla. – On Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center raised a billboard in support of the Putnam Alliance For Equity and Justice , which has been advocating for the removal of a Confederate monument from the entrance to...
June 24, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C . – – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Mississippi’s ban on all abortions after 15 weeks, overturning the Court’s own 1973 landmark decision in Roe v. Wade. The Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson...
June 21, 2022
RICHMOND — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) dropped the third episode in the fourth season of its acclaimed podcast, Sounds Like Hate . The second installment of “Wake-Up Call” leads award-winning co-hosts Jamila...
June 20, 2022
ATLANTA – Efrén C. Olivares , Deputy Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Immigrant Justice Project , released the following statement to join the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to observe...
June 17, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Civil rights and immigrants’ rights organizations across the state denounced Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signing of SB 1808 into law today. The groups say the law is discriminatory and seeks to unjustly and unlawfully...
June 14, 2022
Montgomery, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released two new episodes of the acclaimed podcast, Sounds Like Hate . Season four will examine the story of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Va...
June 09, 2022
MIAMI – The Southern Poverty Law Center has called for the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to open an investigation into the legality of the State of Florida’s planned use of $12 million in...
June 09, 2022
ATLANTA – TODAY The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) , Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) , ACLU of Georgia , Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Lawyer’s Committee) and Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP (SRZ...
June 09, 2022
MONTGOMERY, Ala – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has released a new Extremist File on Jack Posobiec , a political operative and propagandist well known for creating and amplifying viral disinformation campaigns. Often...
June 08, 2022
MONTGOMERY – TODAY the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) , the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) , and Brown Goldstein & Levy , on behalf of the National Federation of the Blind of Alabama (NFB-AL) and individual...
June 03, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An asylum screening rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) denies asylum seekers their due process rights by limiting their ability to properly...
June 01, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), today, released the results of a national poll which further demonstrates the extensive mainstreaming of extremist beliefs and narratives across the country. The poll of...
May 26, 2022
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has filed an amicus brief in Falls v. DeSantis , a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Florida’s HB 7 (commonly called the “Stop W.O.K.E. Act”), signed...
May 26, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Biden signed an Executive Order to reform federal policing on the anniversary of the killing of Mr. George Floyd at the hands of law enforcement. The executive order directs all federal agencies to...
May 25, 2022
ATLANTA – TODAY Voting rights groups filed a preliminary injunction motion to challenge certain barriers to voting created by Georgia’s anti-voter law, S.B. 202 . If granted, the preliminary injunction would lift restrictions on...
