SPLC ‘Fascism Expert’ Charged in Alleged KKK Funding Scheme

Mark Pulliam: SPLC Case Shows Organization’s ‘Hate Map’ Put Conservative Groups Alongside KKK

Retired attorney and legal analyst Mark Pulliam said the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) “hate map” placed mainstream conservative organizations alongside groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), arguing that the organization’s approach to labeling groups as extremists has helped define its public identity and fundraising model.

SPLC ‘Fascism Expert’ Charged in Alleged KKK Funding Scheme

At the center of the Justice Department’s criminal case against the Southern Poverty Law Center is not whether the group opposed violent extremists—that is its public identity—but whether it deceived donors and financial institutions while running a covert paid-informant program inside those very groups; the stakes are structural for the nonprofit sector because the theory,...