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• April 22, 2026

  SPLC Taps Bradley Arant Atty, Ex-Prosecutor For Defense

  The Southern Poverty Law Center has hired a former federal prosecutor and longtime white collar defense attorney from Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP to defend against a criminal case that claims the organization paid informants to "stoke racial hatred."

• April 21, 2026

  5th Circ. OKs Ten Commandments In Texas Public Schools

  The full Fifth Circuit Tuesday narrowly signed off on a Texas law requiring public schools to post copies of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, ruling that the law is indeed constitutional and reversing a lower court's injunction blocking the measure.

• April 21, 2026

  SPLC Paid Sources To 'Stoke Racial Hatred,' Feds Say

  One of the Southern Poverty Law Center's stated missions is to dismantle white supremacy but for years it surreptitiously paid informants in extremist groups to "stoke racial hatred," acting Attorney General Todd Blanche alleged Tuesday while announcing a federal indictment leveling fraud and money laundering charges against the nonprofit.

• April 20, 2026

  Justice Jackson Faults Quick Reversal In DC Stop Case

  Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Monday chided her U.S. Supreme Court colleagues for reversing a D.C. Court of Appeals ruling involving the Fourth Amendment, saying in a dissent that the lower court was correct and that the case "does not merit the use of our summary discretion."

• April 17, 2026

  Too Mentally Ill To Stand In Court, Texas Inmate Fights On

  A Texas death row prisoner who gouged out both of his eyes and suffers from schizoaffective disorder is fighting efforts to move forward with his execution, arguing that his severe psychosis leaves him unable to rationally understand why the state wants to kill him. His case highlights a broader debate over whether the Constitution should bar the execution of people with severe mental illness, even when they technically know they are on death row.

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