Southern Poverty Law Center

State Of Louisiana Sued Over Failure Of Public Defender System

The public defender’s office is still dark in the Orleans Parish Criminal Courthouse in New Orleans on Friday, May 26, 2006. (AP/Alex Brandon)
(REPORT) — Louisiana officials are denying poor people their constitutional right to counsel by failing to establish an effective statewide public defense system, according to a lawsuit filed today by the SPLC and its allies.

From The Mouths Of Babes... And Noam Chomsky

I was just watching a giant L.A. school district walk-out on TV, tens of thousands of students protesting Trump's odd and very questionable ascension to the presidency. L.A. students I've spoken with are worried about Trump's intolerance, xenophobia, racism, misogyny and homophobia and how that mindset may manifest itself as part of a policy agenda sure to be rubber-stamped for the next 2 years by a Republican Congress. But the other topic I heard from the majority of students I spoke with in the last week was Climate Change.

"Hate Group Watchdog" Attacks Catholic Church

"A Badge of Honor"By Michael Hoffmanwww.revisionisthistory.orgMorris Dees' Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled a Catholic organization a "hate group" because the Catholics hosted "speakers who have given lectures on Jewish and Masonic plots for world domination" or who have "members who share that view."This is thought-policing, and it is intended to intimidate freedom of thought and scholarly inquiry, and harm the fu