February 05, 2020
Karen Baynes-Dunning, Interim President and CEO of the SPLC Action Fund, issued the below statement following the conclusion of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial before the U.S. Senate: “We have just witnessed a...
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February 05, 2020
MONTOGMERY, Ala. – A report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released today outlines recommendations to strengthen Alabama’s charter school law. The report defines public charter schools and describes how they operate in...
February 04, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The struggle social studies teachers face in using standard textbooks to provide K-12 students a robust knowledge of history and current events may be lessened by integrating young adult versions of popular...
February 03, 2020
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA — Internationally renowned human and civil rights leader Margaret Huang has been hired as the new president and chief executive officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and SPLC Action Fund. She...
January 31, 2020
“President Trump’s expansion of his Muslim Ban is yet another manifestation of this administration’s hateful and discriminatory agenda enacted in the name of fear, nativism and xenophobia. This abhorrent order is bolstered by...
January 27, 2020
“Today’s ruling allows yet another discriminatory and xenophobic Trump administration policy aimed at low-income black and brown immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security’s ‘public charge’ rule only hurts families...
January 27, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C . – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued the following statement by Melissa Crow, senior supervising attorney with the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, marking the one-year anniversary of the Trump...
January 24, 2020
PHOENIX — An Arizona federal court today entered an order that prohibits Patriot Movement AZ (PMAZ) and four of its members from illegally harassing and intimidating Phoenix-area churches and pastors. The order also requires PMAZ...
January 23, 2020
JACKSON, Miss. -- The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a motion for rehearing in the case of Willie Nash, a man who was egregiously sentenced to a 12-year prison sentence for bringing a cell phone into a county jail. The...
January 23, 2020
“Today Florida’s Supreme Court retreated on the critical requirement that only a unanimous jury can impose the death penalty, making Florida an outlier inconsistent with the federal death penalty and every other state but one...
January 23, 2020
Montgomery, Ala.— As the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles continues to deny parole at extremely high rates, the Southern Poverty Law Center has released a guidebook to help navigate the state’s parole process. The guide...
January 23, 2020
The following statement is from Karen Baynes-Dunning, Interim President and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center . “Today marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. More than 1 million Jews, Roma, Polish,...
January 22, 2020
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed two lawsuits today against the Montgomery County Board of Education for arbitrarily expelling students in violation of their due process rights under the 14th...
January 17, 2020
The following statement is from Karen Baynes-Dunning, Interim President and CEO of the SPLC Action Fund: “This week, the House formally delivered impeachment articles to the Senate. While many of us believe the evidence against...
January 16, 2020
The following statement regarding the Florida Supreme Court Amendment 4 decision from this morning is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center: “The Florida Supreme Court’s decision is...
January 15, 2020
FLORIDA – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a lawsuit today on behalf of March for Our Lives Florida, the Florida Student Power Network, Dream Defenders and individual students who were denied the right to speak at a...
January 10, 2020
PHOENIX – Two immigrant parents separated from their children by immigration officials at the U.S. border filed a federal lawsuit today over a Trump Administration policy that has separated and traumatized thousands of migrant...
January 08, 2020
At the invitation of the Michigan Supreme Court, Public Funds Public Schools (PFPS) has filed an amicus curiae brief urging invalidation of a Michigan law that funnels limited public education funds to private schools. PFPS is a...
January 07, 2020
JACKSON, Mississippi — In a letter sent to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), a U.S. Congressman and Mississippi civil justice advocates called on the agency to begin an immediate investigation into the Mississippi Department...
December 18, 2019
Montgomery, Ala. — Last night, the Montgomery City Council agreed to repeal an ordinance that criminalized panhandling. The original ordinance was passed in July and required anyone cited or arrested for panhandling to serve a...
December 18, 2019
WASHINGTON, DC – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Innovation Law Lab (Law Lab), Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP), Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) and Santa Fe...
December 16, 2019
MONTGOMERY, AL — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center staff voted to join the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. The following is a statement by SPLC Interim CEO and President Karen Baynes-Dunning: “We look forward to...
December 13, 2019
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. - In a ruling Friday the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld a lower court ruling finding that two minimum wage workers in Birmingham lacked standing to sue the governor and attorney...
December 09, 2019
MIAMI -- The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has failed to ensure the safety and welfare of immigrants incarcerated in South Florida detention facilities, according to a new report released by the Southern...
December 06, 2019
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - In a ruling Friday, the federal judge presiding over the case G.H. v. Marstiller challenging Florida’s use of solitary confinement in juvenile detention facilities ordered it to continue to proceed toward...
