Anti-LGBTQ+ activist to testify before Congress against Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-LGBTQ+ activist to testify before Congress against Southern Poverty Law Center

As U.S. House Republicans scrutinize one of the nation’s most prominent anti-hate groups, they will bring in a right-wing commentator who spent years villainizing LGBTQ+ Americans and their allies.Tyler O’Neil, now a senior editor at The Daily Signal, was listed as the top witness at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center being held Wednesday. That’s largely because O’Neil penned a book, “Making Hate Pay: The Corr…

Here’s Who House Republicans Are Using to Amplify DOJ Smears of Southern Poverty Law Center

Congressional Republicans are using long-time opponents of the Southern Poverty Law Center to amplify the Trump DOJ's wrongful politically motivated indictment.

Kevin Roberts Comments on Southern Poverty Law Center Scam

In “The Kevin Roberts Show” on May 13, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts and co-host Larry O’Connor said that the Southern Poverty Law Center has gone from promoting civil rights to encouraging left-wing extremism. “It’s an organization that didn’t monitor violent extremists like they said they did,” O’Connor said. “Over time, it helped redefine ordinary political disagreement as some sort of moral disqualification and, frankly, divide…

After Voting Rights Advocates Rally in Montgomery, Republicans Turn Their Sights on Southern Poverty Law Center

Civil rights organizations are sounding the alarm ahead of a May 20 House Judiciary Committee hearing targeting the Southern Poverty Law Center, warning that the proceeding is part of a broader campaign by the Trump administration and congressional Republicans to weaponize the federal government against dissenting voices and nonprofit watchdog groups. The hearing is at Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET. “Congressional Republicans are aiding and abetting t…