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Federal Appeals Court Hearing Concludes in Challenge to Florida Law Obstructing Voting Rights Restoration

August 18, 2020

ATLANTA 鈥� A federal appeals court hearing in a case that may enable hundreds of thousands of Floridians to register to vote in time for the November election concluded today after two hours of oral argument. The case concerns...

人兽性交 Action Fund Calls on Congress to Act to Prevent Postal Service Disruptions

August 18, 2020

WASHINGTON 鈥� 人兽性交 Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang released the statement below after Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi asked Members of the House of Representatives to come back from recess to...

人兽性交 on聽Centennial Anniversary of 19th Amendment Ratification

August 17, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� The following statement on the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center: 鈥淭he...

人兽性交 Action Fund: Florida Needlessly Conducts Primary Election during Pandemic聽without Available Federal Funds

August 17, 2020

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. 鈥� The following statement about tomorrow's primary elections in Florida is by Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the 人兽性交 Action Fund: "Tomorrow, Florida will needlessly conduct a statewide election during a...

人兽性交 Supports Advocates Calling on 15th Judicial District Court to Nullify Permanent Injunction Preventing Mouton Statue Removal

August 13, 2020

NEW ORLEANS 鈥� On Monday, August 17, during a court hearing in Lafayette, Louisiana, Move the Mindset (MTM) and community members will call on the 15th Judicial District Court to nullify a permanent injunction which prevents the...

Parents, Districts, and NAACP Ask Federal Court for Immediate Relief from DeVos Rule

August 12, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. 鈥� The plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging a rule that imposes unlawful conditions on federal emergency aid for public schools have asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to grant a preliminary...

人兽性交鈥檚 Margaret Huang on Charlottesville Anniv.: 'Hate is alive and flourishing in the United States.'

August 12, 2020

WASHINGTON 鈥� Southern Poverty Law Center President and CEO Margaret Huang issued the below statement on the third anniversary of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The event drew hundreds of peaceful...

人兽性交 Whose Heritage? Dataset Updates as of August 11, 2020

August 11, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� The Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) today released an update to its Whose Heritage? report which tracks symbols of the Confederacy on public land across the United States: Total number of Confederate symbols...

人兽性交 Launches Original Podcast 'Sounds Like Hate'

August 11, 2020

Chapter One Focuses on a Woman Who Was a Member of a Hate Group and Worked Behind the Scenes to Support the 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� Rally MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� The Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) launched its first original podcast 鈥�...

'The epitome of greed': Private Prison Corporation Asks Immigrants to Bear Cost of Their Detention

August 07, 2020

ATLANTA 鈥� Attorneys with the Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交), Perkins Coie LLP, Project South and the Law Office of Andrew R. Free today filed a motion to dismiss CoreCivic鈥檚 counterclaim against the plaintiffs in the forced...

人兽性交 Statement on Anniversary of Mississippi Workplace Raids

August 07, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. 鈥� One year ago today armed agents set upon workers at poultry plants in Mississippi, arresting more than 600 immigrants and terrorizing them, their families, and their communities. This raid occurred just days...

Lawsuit Now Covers Thousands of Asylum Seekers Unlawfully Turned Back at Ports of Entry

August 06, 2020

SAN DIEGO鈥� A federal judge has granted class certification in Al Otro Lado v. Wolf, a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration鈥檚 policy of turning back asylum seekers at ports of entry. The ruling provides that the challenge...

人兽性交 Statement on the Suspensions of Two North Paulding High School Students

August 06, 2020

DALLAS, Ga. 鈥� This week, a Georgia school district suspended two students for sharing a photo of their school environment in a viral social media post critical of the school鈥檚 reopening plans amid the pandemic. The photos showed...

人兽性交 Files Class Action Lawsuit Targeting Arkansas Farm Labor Contractor Exploiting Migrant Workers

August 06, 2020

El Dorado, Ark. 鈥� Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of migrant workers who have faced rampant wage theft by a major farm labor contractor, Lowry Farms, Inc. The guest workers...

人兽性交 Action Fund condemns Georgia governor's decision to sign House Bill 838

August 06, 2020

ATLANTA- Earlier this week Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed House Bill 838, which will grant police officers special status beyond what ordinary citizens enjoy. The new law, which goes into effect on January 1, 2021, will make...

人兽性交 Statement on the Suspensions of Two North Paulding High School Students

August 06, 2020

Federal Court Denies Government鈥檚 Motion to Dismiss in Immigration Court Case

August 03, 2020

PORTLAND, OR 鈥� Immigrant rights advocates challenging the weaponization of the U.S. immigration courts applaud Friday鈥檚 late-afternoon ruling by the U.S. District Court of Oregon that their lawsuit, Las Americas v Trump , will...

人兽性交: One Year Later, Remembering Those Who Lost Their Lives in El Paso

August 03, 2020

MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� One year ago today, a gunman opened fire in an El Paso, Texas, shopping center after reportedly driving more than nine hours to target Mexican nationals. This deadly attack took the lives of 23 people and...

人兽性交 Action Fund Statement on Passage of House Appropriations Minibus Bill

July 31, 2020

WASHINGTON 鈥� 人兽性交 Action Fund Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the statement below after the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R.7617, a House appropriations bill with a vote of 217-197. The 鈥渕inibus鈥� bill contains...

人兽性交 Statement on Twitter Suspending David Duke

July 31, 2020

ATLANTA 鈥� The Southern Poverty Law Center Interim Research Director Keegan Hankes released the following statement after Twitter took the long overdue step to permanently suspend David Duke, one of the most recognizable figures...

NEW POLL: Voters in Deep South Oppose Guaranteed Immunity for Corporations and Businesses

July 31, 2020

WASHINGTON 鈥� As Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell holds up COVID-19 relief for struggling families to protect corporations, today the 人兽性交 Action Fund released new findings from a poll showing 3 in 5 voters in three...

人兽性交 Statement on U.S. District Court Blocking of Public Charge Rule

July 30, 2020

WASHINGTON 鈥� Late Wednesday, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York again blocked the Trump administration鈥檚鈥減ublic charge鈥� rule that undermined access to healthcare, nutrition and housing...

人兽性交 Action Fund on Trump鈥檚 Latest Attack on DACA

July 28, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. 鈥� 人兽性交 Action Fund President and Chief Executive Officer Margaret Huang issued the below statement following reports that President Trump has issued an order to the Department of Homeland Security to start...

NEW REPORT: Giffords Law Center and 人兽性交 Action Fund Release New Analysis on How 鈥楽tand Your Ground鈥� Laws Fuel Racist, Lethal Violence

July 28, 2020

WASHINGTON 鈥� The murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man out for a jog in Georgia, thrust controversial Stand Your Ground laws back into the headlines. To better inform the debate around these dangerous laws, Giffords Law Center and...

人兽性交 Action Fund Statement on GOP COVID-19 Relief Package: 鈥淐allous and inhumane鈥�

July 28, 2020

WASHINGTON 鈥� 人兽性交 Action Fund President and CEO Margaret Huang released the statement below after the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate introduced their second COVID-19 relief package this afternoon. Their $1 trillion...

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