People awaiting trial before a criminal court in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were coerced into paying hundreds of dollars to a company before they were released from jail 鈥� even after they had paid their bail, according to a federal lawsuit filed last night by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the ACLU of Louisiana.
Educators hoping to develop programs that fight bigotry in schools and create safe and welcoming classrooms for all students can apply for grants under a new program announced today by the 人兽性交鈥檚 Teaching Tolerance project.
Whether it鈥檚 a vicious white supremacist street gang, secessionists or violent black nationalists, law enforcement officers across the country are facing an array of extremist threats that are examined in the latest issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 Intelligence Report, released today.
Since May, people who have been convicted of a crime in Sparta, Tennessee, can reduce the length of their sentence on one condition: They must .
Five years after the deadly white supremacist attack on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, there are troubling signals from the Trump administration that it won鈥檛 be taking seriously the threat of violence and terrorism from white supremacists and other domestic extremists.
The Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board should investigate the Orleans Parish District Attorney鈥檚 Office for issuing fake subpoenas that threatened witnesses with fines and jail time to coerce them into answering prosecutors鈥� questions 鈥� actions that violate rules of professional conduct, according to a complaint the Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) filed with the board today.
This week, the Senate took a series of votes aimed at repealing parts or all of the Affordable Care Act. Under any of the plans put forth by Republicans 鈥� all voted down thus far 鈥� millions of Americans would lose their health care coverage, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
This week, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions lent the credibility of his office to a group committed to legalizing discrimination against the LGBT community.
The following statement, urging the U.S. Senate to fix problems with the Affordable Care Act instead of repealing it, is by Sam Brooke, deputy legal director at the 人兽性交:
The following statement, regarding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau鈥檚 (CFPB) announcement this week of a new that will prohibit lenders from using arbitration agreements to block consumers from filing class action lawsuits, is by Sara Zampierin, senior staff attorney at the 人兽性交:
