SPLC asks judge to dismiss criminal charges as 'violation of due process'

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]Southern Poverty Law Center asks judge to dismiss criminal charges as violation of due process. Huffost is reporting the Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday, requested that a federal judge dismiss criminal charges filed by the Justice Department, which it characterized as part of the Trump administration's attack on the civil rights group. Uh, in the 47page motion filed in the middle district of Alabama, the Southern Poverty Law C Center's lawyers argued that the April indictment accusing the nonprofit of fraud, among other things, was false and the result of President Donald Trump's yearslong failed effort to overturn the 2020 election results.

[00:00:44]The filings point to whistleblower reports submitted to Congress alleging that top Justice Department officials pressured prosecutors to rush the indictment against the center, adding that the court should dismiss the indictment as a violation of due process. These procedural irregularities show that the charges against the SPLC were a foregone conclusion based on prosectorial vindictiveness driven by the White House and FBI leadership's retribution campaign rather than the result of a goodfaith examination of the evidence. The filings read. That's what we know for now from the Pepio newsroom.

[00:01:24]I'm David Moore.