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Lawsuit Targets Trump Administration Policy That Has Trapped Tens of Thousands of Asylum Seekers in Mexico

October 28, 2020

Los Angeles - Today, immigration advocates filed a new lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy. The policy has forced over 60,000 asylum seekers into precarious, life-threatening situations in...

New SPLC Analysis: With 8 Days Left Until Election Day, 34 Million Americans Have Not Mailed Their Ballots

October 26, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A new analysis released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) finds that with just eight days to go before the 2020 General Election, at least 34 million Americans have not yet mailed in their ballots...

SPLC Names Efrén Olivares as Deputy Legal Director for the Immigrant Justice Project

October 26, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today named Efrén C. Olivares as the new Deputy Legal Director for the organization’s Immigrant Justice Project (IJP). Olivares, the first immigrant to assume the position...

Civil Rights Groups Continue to Call for Georgia Election Supervisors to Make Immediate Preparations if Voters who Requested Absentee Ballots Choose to Vote in Person

October 26, 2020

ATLANTA – This month, three civil rights groups sent correspondence to all 159 county election supervisors in the state of Georgia calling for clear plans to accommodate the significant numbers of voters who have requested an...

SPLC Launches $25,000 Ad Campaign Supporting Mississippi’s Ballot Measure 2

October 26, 2020

JACKSON, Mississippi – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has launched a $25,000 digital advertising campaign, urging Mississippians to vote yes on Ballot Measure 2 on Election Day. Ballot Measure 2 would ensure that...

New SPLC Analysis: Younger Voters Are Turning Out More, But Continue to Lag in Returning Mail Ballots and Voting Early In-Person

October 23, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A new analysis released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) finds that as voters across the country begin to cast their ballots for the 2020 General Election, younger voters are turning out more but...

SPLC Action Fund Statement Ahead of the Senate Judiciary Committee Vote on Judge Amy Coney Barrett

October 22, 2020

WASHINGTON — SPLC Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang released the below statement ahead of the Senate Judiciary Committee vote to approve the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court and recommend...

SPLC: SCOTUS Ruling in Alabama COVID-19 Voting Case 'Has Curtailed the Voting Rights of Vulnerable Citizens'

October 22, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Wednesday evening, the Supreme Court of the United States granted an application for stay brought by the defendants in the People First of Alabama v. John Merrill litigation, thereby preventing Alabama counties...

SPLC Statement on Hamilton County Commission's Vote to Keep A.P. Stewart Bust in Place

October 21, 2020

CHATTANOOGA – Earlier today, the Hamilton County Commission voted to allow a Jim Crow-era bust to remain in front of its courthouse. The following statement is from Southern Poverty Law Center Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks: “While...

SPLC Sues Alabama School District for Wrongful School Suspensions

October 21, 2020

TROY, Ala. – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed two complaints against the Pike County Board of Education for arbitrarily suspending students, in violation of their due process rights under the U.S. Constitution...

New SPLC Analysis: With Less Than 2 Weeks Before Election Day, 38 Million Americans Have Not Mailed Their Ballots

October 21, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A new analysis released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) finds that with less than two weeks to go before the 2020 General Election, at least 38 million Americans have not mailed in their ballots...

EXCLUSIVE: SPLC Investigation Reveals White House Deputy Comms Director Julia Hahn Had Connections to White Nationalist Movement

October 21, 2020

WASHINGTON — An investigation published today by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch reveals that President Trump’s Deputy Communications Director Julia Hahn had connections to the white nationalist movement around...

Civil Rights Groups Highlight New Cure Process for Mississippi Absentee Voters’ Ballots, Additional Curbside Voting Availability

October 20, 2020

JACKSON, Miss. – Today in Mississippi, plaintiffs and civil rights groups that challenged Mississippi’s burdensome absentee ballot requirements celebrated new protections put in place for absentee voters as the state conducts an...

New SPLC Analysis: Younger Voters Continue to Lag in Returning Mail Ballots and Voting Early In-person

October 20, 2020

Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Decision to Hear Remain in Mexico Challenge

October 19, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a Ninth Circuit decision that held illegal a Trump administration policy that sends asylum seekers to wait in Mexico in dangerous conditions as their claims for...

SPLC Analysis: Young Voters Are Not Returning Absentee Ballots as Fast as Other Groups

October 16, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – An analysis by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) finds that as voters across the country begin to cast their ballots for the 2020 General Election, voters under 30 across 42 states have requested ballots...

EXCLUSIVE: SPLC Podcast Reveals Secret Recordings from Neo-Nazi White Supremacist Group, The Base

October 15, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. — The latest episode of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)’s podcast Sounds Like Hate published today with exclusive and never-before-heard recordings from a neo-Nazi white supremacist group, The Base ...

SPLC Statement on Final Day of U.S. Census Counting

October 15, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The following statement about the final 24 hours of counting for the 2020 census is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Until 6:00AM Eastern Daylight Time on October 16,...

SPLC’s Whose Heritage? Reports Over 100 Confederate Symbols Removed Since George Floyd’s Murder

October 14, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced that over 100 Confederate symbols have been removed since May 26, 2020 — the start of the protests following the police killing of George Floyd. The Whose...

SPLC Action Fund Responds to SCOTUS Decision to Halt Census Count

October 13, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The following statement regarding the Supreme Court's decision to halt the census count while litigation continues in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director...

SPLC Responds to 11th Circuit Decision in Alabama COVID-19 Voting Case

October 13, 2020

ATLANTA — The following statement regarding today's United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit split decision in People First of Alabama v. John Merrill is by Caren Short, senior staff attorney for the Southern...

SPLC Statement Commemorating Indigenous Peoples’ Day

October 12, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Southern Poverty Law Center President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the statement below in commemoration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day: “On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and every day, we honor the first peoples to...

SPLC, health experts file amicus brief supporting eviction moratorium during COVID-19

October 09, 2020

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today joined more than 20 medical associations and experts in filing an amicus brief in Brown vs. Azar, supporting the Center for Disease Control’s eviction moratorium during the COVID-19...

Federal Judge Rejects ICE’s ‘Weak’ Implementation of Court-Ordered Custody Determinations of High Risk Individuals and Other Safety Measures

October 08, 2020

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Last night in the U.S. District Court for the Central Division of California, U.S. District Judge Jesus Bernal granted civil rights organizations' motion to enforce a preliminary injunction in their class-...

SPLC to Collapse Black Separatist Groups Listings in Hate Map; Reassigns Groups According to Ideology

October 08, 2020

Montgomery, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Intelligence Project announced today that, in pursuit of a more accurate hate map , we will be collapsing the Black Separatist listings and be reclassifying them under...

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