Jeff Sessions: The DOJ 'Will Not Partner With Groups That Unfairly Defame Americans' Like the SPLC

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9 August 2018
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On Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions denounced the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for weaponizing its "hate group" designations against conservative organizations, and pledged that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will not partner with hate groups or groups that defame Americans. He spoke in front of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a Christian legal organization that has won 9 Supreme Court cases in the last seven years and that has been unfairly defamed as a "hate group" by the SPLC.
 
"I have ordered a review at the Department of Justice to make sure that we do not partner with any groups that discriminate," the attorney general declared. "We will not partner with groups that unfairly defame Americans for standing up for the Constitution or their faith."
 
He made this promise shortly after explaining the history of the Southern Poverty Law Center. "People of faith are facing a new hostility. Really, a bigoted ideology which is founded on animus towards people of faith," Sessions declared. "You'll notice that they don't rely on the facts. They don't make better arguments. They don't propose higher ideals. No, they just call people names—like 'hate group.'"...
 
Sessions set the record straight. "Let me say this loud and clear: at the Department of Justice, we will not partner with hate groups. Not on my watch," he declared. But he also insisted that the DOJ "will not partner with groups that unfairly defame Americans for standing up for the Constitution or their faith."...
 
In 2016, even the Obama DOJ reprimanded the SPLC and other groups that "overstepped the bounds of zealous advocacy" in demanding the silencing of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). ...
 
Yet just last month, Fox News's Tucker Carlson reported that the FBI has an "ongoing" relationship with the SPLC....
 

 

 
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