CREW statement on Southern Poverty Law Center - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

CREW statement on Southern Poverty Law Center - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

The Southern Poverty Law Center has spent the past 50 years as one of the nation’s most critical bulwarks against the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups. This is yet another attempt by the Trump administration to rewrite American history, prosecute dissent and erode the civil rights of millions of Americans.

American Oversight Condemns Trump DOJ’s Politicized Prosecution of Southern Poverty Law Center

Wednesday, American Oversight released the following statement from its executive director, Chioma Chukwu, on the Trump administration’s politically motivated 11-count indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, brought by the Department of Justice: “This prosecution bears all the hallmarks of a politically motivated, retaliatory case against an organization that has long opposed extreme agendas that threaten fundamental civil and human right…