Watch live: House convenes hearing on Southern Poverty Law Center turmoil
Watch live: House convenes hearing on Southern Poverty Law Center turmoil
The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Tuesday morning on the Southern Poverty Law Center, months after the Trump administration accused the civil rights group of funneling money to extremist groups.
The SPLC announced in April that it was under investigation by the Justice Department and in May pleaded not guilty to using a now-defunct informant program to pay hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The center at the time called the indictment the “latest manifestation of a top-down,........
