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The group settled Nawaz’s lawsuit by paying $3 million. In addition, people have unsubscribed from our communications, some of whom have been donors in the past and may have been donors for the future,” the letter notes. Alliance Defending Freedom—a legal organization with a multi-million budget, several regional offices, and more than three dozen staff attorneys—has specialized in taking on these types of cases.

Conservative legal groups have keyed on vote-by-mail as a means to restrict ballot access.

Yet two lesser-known organizations the SPLC once branded “anti-Muslim hate groups” have secretly disappeared from the leftist group’s list. The Horn News 59. Professor Adam Tomkins MSP is currently Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Strategy in the Scottish Parliament. Last year, a former heroin addict who tried to start an organization helping men with opioid addictions sued the SPLC after the far-left group helped get his organization shut down. Any senator, of any party, who wants a Supreme Court that puts the Constitution first, interprets the law as written, and protects our freedoms should be thrilled by Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination and commit to her prompt confirmation.”. On August 17, Professors Robert George of Princeton and Cornel West of Harvard discussed freedom of speech, freedom of thought, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the cancel culture. Speaking of the ACRU, most of the board is an older-aged group of former members of Ronald Reagan’s administration, but also among their top ranks are a former executive director of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a former legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a board member at the Cato Institute, and Hans von Spakovsky, a notorious voter fraud promoter (and Adams’s former boss in the Bush Justice Department) whom President Trump appointed to his Commission on Election Integrity (along with Adams) in 2017. You can sign up as a subscriber with a range of benefits, including an opt-in to receive the print magazine by mail. ADF is just one of many Christian conservative legal organizations, or CCLOs, that rose to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s. All Rights Reserved. However, the litigation won’t be over on Election Day. The plaintiff in this case is Tony Daunt, whose legal team includes William S. Consovoy, the personal attorney to President Donald Trump, along with two other lawyers from his practice, as well as Jason Torchinsky, who is a contributor to the Federalist Society and a member of the Republican National Lawyers Association. Copyright ©2020 PJmedia.com/Salem Media. Last March, the SPLC fired its co-founder, Morris Dees, amid a decades-long sexual harassment and racial discrimination scandal.

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The president and general counsel of PILF, J. Christian Adams, is a longtime right-wing activist and former civil rights attorney in George W. Bush’s Justice Department, who used his office mostly to allege and try cases of discrimination against white people, most notoriously the phony “New Black Panther” voter intimidation case, which became a rallying cry on the right.

Judge Barrett is young, brilliant, and exceptionally well-qualified.

In later FBI testimony, he admitted to targeting FRC because it was on the SPLC’s ‘hate map,’ and that he intended to shoot up other organizations once he finished there.”. ALEC, the Cato Institute, and the Heritage Foundation all receive money tied to the Koch network and their various charities. Now more than ever we need a jurists who will decide each cases based on Constitution and the law – not on their personal agenda. I know. Well, at least it looked like America. More to the point, there is little to no evidence that there are people trying to vote under a false identity, the kind of fraud that would be prevented with an ID law. InfoWars’ little brother. This includes groups with all sorts of connections to the conservative movement, like the Honest Elections Project, a legal alias for the Judicial Watch Project, which advocated for the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and which is connected to the Federalist Society and the Koch brothers network. A Brennan Center report looking at voter fraud in the 2000s revealed that voter impersonation, both for in-person voting and mail-in ballots, occurred between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent of the time. The Liberty Daily 60.