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SPLC: New Department of Homeland Security Guidance Provides Critical Protections for Immigrant Workers in Labor Disputes

January 13, 2023

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released new guidance on how immigrant workers involved in labor disputes can seek deferred action and employment authorization from the agency. The announcement follows...

SPLC, ACLU of Louisiana and Immigrants’ Rights Organizations Visit More Than 3000 People Detained in ICE Custody in Effort to End Prolonged Detention

January 11, 2023

NEW ORLEANS — In 2022, as we marked 20 years of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the ACLU of Louisiana and immigrants’ rights coalition partners — National Immigration Project (NIPNLG), Robert F. Kennedy Human...

SPLC: Extremist Mobilization Continues Two Years After Jan. 6 Attack, Requires All of Us to Act

January 06, 2023

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement on the second anniversary of the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol: “Two years ago, far-right...

SPLC Statement on Biden Administration Title 42 Policy Changes

January 05, 2023

WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement from Efrén C. Olivares , deputy legal director for the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project , in response to President Joe Biden’s plans to extend...

The Southern Poverty Law Center Applauds President Biden’s Signing to Bring Bust of Justice Thurgood Marshall to Statuary Hall

December 27, 2022

WASHINGTON — Today, President Biden signed S. 5229 , requiring the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library to replace the bust of the late Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney in the U.S. Capitol with one honoring the...

SPLC: Jan. 6 Report Highlights Urgent Need to End Extremist Mobilization and Strengthen Democracy

December 23, 2022

MONTGOMERY, AL — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement in response to the release of the final report from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021...

SPLC Statement on Eleventh Circuit Ruling in Discrimination Lawsuit Against the Cobb County School District

December 20, 2022

ATLANTA – On Friday, Dec. 16, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed a lower court’s decision denying a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order that would have allowed students with disabilities...

Southern Poverty Law Center Statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s Order to Keep Title 42 in Place

December 19, 2022

WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center released the following statement from Rebecca Cassler, senior staff attorney for the Immigrant Justice Project , in response to a decision today by the U.S. Supreme Court to suspend...

COURT ORDERS FAIRER MAPS FOR JACKSONVILLE

December 19, 2022

Jacksonville, Fla. – Today, a federal court judge ordered fairer maps for the Jacksonville City Council and Duval County School Board. This decision ensures that the maps drawn by Jacksonville voting rights organizations and...

The Southern Poverty Law Center Condemns Dragging of Disabled Community Activist by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Dept. at City Council Meeting

December 16, 2022

JACKSONVILLE — This week, Northside Coalition of Jacksonville President Ben Frazier was dragged and detained by Jacksonville Sheriff’s department officers for going over the time limit during the public comment section of a city...

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER STATEMENT ON PROUD BOYS SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY TRIALS

December 15, 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala.— Dr. Cassie Miller, senior research analyst with the Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) Intelligence Project, released the following statement ahead of the start of United States of America v Tarrio et al. ,...

WORKERS’ RIGHTS ADVOCATES AGAIN PETITION NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR TO IMPROVE COVID-19 PROTECTIONS FOR NORTH CAROLINA EMPLOYEES

December 14, 2022

RALEIGH – Workers’ rights advocates across North Carolina are petitioning the North Carolina Department of Labor (NCDOL) to adopt rules protecting workers from future public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. The groups...

The Southern Poverty Law Center Applauds President Biden’s Signing of the Respect for Marriage Act

December 13, 2022

WASHINGTON – Today, President Biden signed HR 8404 , the Respect for Marriage Act , repealing the discriminatory 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and providing federal protection for same-sex and interracial marriages. The following...

SPLC: 2021 FBI HATE CRIME REPORT CANNOT BE TRUSTED

December 12, 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement responding to the FBI 2021 Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) report released today. While underreporting of hate...

COBB COUNTY EXTENDS DEADLINE OF RECEIPT FOR VOTERS WHO RECEIVED LATE BALLOTS

December 03, 2022

ATLANTA – A Cobb County Superior Court judge has granted a preliminary injunction extending the deadline for receiving delayed absentee ballots for certain voters, along with other accommodations, in response to a lawsuit filed...

SPLC AND SIMPSON THACHER ASK SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CASE ON MISSISSIPPI’S CRIMINAL DISENFRANCHISEMENT SCHEME SPLC

December 02, 2022

Washington, D.C. – Today the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP signed an Amicus Brief on behalf of tens of thousands of Mississippians urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case that...

FREE Admission to the SPLC's Civil Rights Memorial Center: Dec. 5-7, 2022

December 02, 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Starting Monday, Dec. 5 the Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC) , a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), will offer visitors free admission in observance of the 67 th anniversary of the Montgomery...

LEGAL ADVOCATES FILE LAWSUIT CHALLENGING THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF FLORIDA’S MIGRANT RELOCATION PROGRAM

December 01, 2022

MIAMI — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Leontire & Associates, P.C. and the Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) of Harvard Law School filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of...

COBB COUNTY FAILS TO SEND ABSENTEE BALLOTS FOR SECOND TIME AS SPLC AND ACLU FILE SECOND ROUND OF LITIGATION

December 01, 2022

ATLANTA – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) , the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia (ACLU of Georgia) , American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Dechert LLP took renewed legal action today after the Cobb County...

EXCLUSIVE REPORTING: Illinois GOP Official Affiliates with Extremist Groups & Shares Racist Posts

December 01, 2022

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A  new investigative report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch reveals that an official in Illinois’ DuPage County Republican Party is a leader in a radical parent group,...

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER STATEMENT ON CONVICTIONS IN OATH KEEPERS SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY TRIALS

November 30, 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala — The Southern Poverty Law Center’s President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the following statement after the historic convictions of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and group member Kelly Meggs on seditious...

FSUS Agrees to Allow First Grader to Return to School

November 22, 2022

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida State University Schools, Inc. (FSUS), a public K-12 charter school, rescinded their decision to involuntarily withdraw a 6-year-old Latino student for allegedly throwing a tantrum, according to a...

SPLC RESPONDS TO TWITTER REINSTATING DONALD TRUMP

November 21, 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released the following statement from Michael Edison Hayden, senior investigative reporter and spokesperson, Intelligence Project, after Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk,...

Parents Challenging Alabama’s Criminal Ban on Healthcare for Transgender Adolescents to Argue before the 11th Circuit

November 18, 2022

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Plaintiffs challenging Alabama’s SB 184 will urge the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to affirm the district court’s order barring enforcement of the law, which would criminalize doctors and...

SPLC APPLAUDS STRIKING DOWN OF TITLE 42 POLICY

November 17, 2022

WASHINGTON — Rebecca Cassler, senior staff attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project , released the following statement in response to Tuesday’s decision by the U.S. District Court for the District...

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