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The following statement is from SPLC President Richard Cohen.
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The SPLC today submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Justice for the remarks given by Attorney General Jeff Sessions Tuesday at the Alliance Defending Freedom’s Summit on Religious Liberty.
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The following statement, regarding Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ speech to the Alliance Defending Freedom planned for this evening, is by David Dinielli, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center:
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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.
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We are disappointed by the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. HB 1523 is a plain violation of our central constitutional values.
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Janet Jenkins has been fighting for years for the return of her daughter, Isabella, and to bring those responsible for Isabella’s kidnapping to justice.
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The Trump administration tonight showed a few more of its true colors, and they are decidedly not the colors of the rainbow.
Hatewatch
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick joined Tony Perkins, president of the anti-LGBT hate group Family Research Council (FRC), twice in the past two weeks to promote SB6, the so-called “Texas Privacy Act,” a top legislative priority for Patrick during this session.
Hatewatch
Despite being kicked out of Africa for his rhetoric, anti-LGBT pastor Steven Anderson is returning to the continent. And this time, he has help.
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The SPLC today filed an amicus brief in support of a federal judge’s decision to temporarily block a Mississippi law allowing business owners and government workers to refuse service to LGBT people.
