{"id":1910592,"date":"2023-04-06T07:11:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defamation-lawsuit-against-southern-poverty-law-center-moves-forward\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T07:20:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:20:06","slug":"defamation-lawsuit-against-southern-poverty-law-center-moves-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defamation-lawsuit-against-southern-poverty-law-center-moves-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Defamation Lawsuit Against Southern Poverty Law Center Moves Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdefamation-lawsuit-against-southern-poverty-law-center-moves-forward%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1910592&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0406\/502a34fe-8101-404b-8b02-6ef612aa063a\/audio.mp3?length=4462893&#038;duration=372\"><\/div>\n<p>A defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is proceeding after the SPLC referred to an immigration reform advocacy group as an &#8220;anti-immigrant hate group.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Dustin Inman Society (DIS), an organization aimed at &#8220;promoting the enforcement of immigration laws in the United States,&#8221; filed the lawsuit. They claim that the SPLC&#8217;s identification of their organization as a &#8220;hate group&#8221;\u00a0is defamatory and puts them at risk of violent retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>Judge William Keith Watkins of Alabama&#8217;s Middle District Federal Court denied the SPLC&#8217;s request to dismiss the lawsuit on March 31.<\/p>\n<p>The SPLC is a nonprofit organization that specializes in civil rights litigation and advocacy. They also operate a website that tracks extremist activity in the United States, where they document their &#8220;extremist group&#8221;\u00a0labels on a &#8220;Hate Map&#8221; web portal. The Hate Map includes anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, anti-Muslim, Christian identity, general hate, hate music, KKK, male supremacy, Neo-Confederacy, Neo-Nazi, Neo-V\u00f6lkisch, racist skinhead, radical traditional Catholicism, and white nationalism.<\/p>\n<p>The DIS says the SPLC reversed an earlier decision, in which the SPLC stated that the DIS did not belong on the &#8220;Hate Map,&#8221; because the DIS was handling immigration policy objectives through the legal process, rather than threats of violence or intimidation of immigrants. The SPLC then added the &#8220;anti-immigrant hate group&#8221; label in February of 2018, despite no change in the criteria for labeling organizations as hate groups or the DIS&#8217;s behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>The SPLC&#8217;s change in tune, according to the DIS, came after the SPLC registered lobbyists in Georgia opposed to a &#8220;pro-enforcement&#8221;\u00a0immigration bill working through the state legislature.<\/p>\n<p>D.A. King, the founder and president of the DIS, believes that the SPLC&#8217;s efforts to label them as an extremist group were an attempt to marginalize them in the eyes of state lawmakers and the media.<\/p>\n<h2>Threats of Violence<\/h2>\n<p>According to the DIS, other individuals and organizations, such as the Family Resource Council and Dr. Charles Murray, have faced violent threats after being labeled hate groups by the SPLC.<\/p>\n<p>The DIS&#8217;s federal lawsuit against the SPLC remains live because Judge William Keith Watkins denied the SPLC&#8217;s motion to have the suit dismissed. The lawsuit alleges that the SPLC&#8217;s labeling as a hate group is particularly harmful since the organization has a reputation as a reputable source of information on extremist activity. The mainstream media routinely cites the SPLC in their reporting on hate groups and extremism in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>NTD News sought a comment from the SPLC but did not receive a response at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge is allowing a defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to move forward after the SPLC labeled an immigration reform advocacy group as an \u201canti-immigrant hate group.\u201d Judge William Keith Watkins of Alabama\u2019s Middle District Federal Court denied the SPLC\u2019s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Dustin Inman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":1910593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[5488,9142,6547,4585,5368,15876,6260],"class_list":["post-1910592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-center","tag-defamation","tag-law","tag-lawsuit","tag-moves","tag-poverty","tag-southern"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}