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BumRushDaShow

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Tue Apr 28, 2026, 08:02 PM Tuesday

Southern Poverty Law Center wants Todd Blanche to correct 'false' statements about organization

Source: ABC News

April 28, 2026, 11:49 AM


Attorneys for the Southern Poverty Law Center asked a federal judge Tuesday to demand that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issue a correction to allegedly "false" statements he made in the aftermath of the indictment of the organization last week, according to a legal filing.

In a motion to the judge presiding over their criminal case in the Middle District of Alabama, attorneys for the SPLC accuse Blanche of lying in an interview he gave to Fox News last Tuesday when he claimed the government did not have information showing the organization has shared information it learned from informants with law enforcement.

"Those statements are false," attorneys for the SPLC wrote. "Weeks before the indictment, undersigned counsel provided information to the government demonstrating unequivocally that the SPLC had shared information from its informants with law enforcement."

Blanche, who earlier this month replaced Pam Bondi as attorney general, announced last week that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging the group with wire, bank fraud and money laundering offenses related to its paying of informants to infiltrate hate groups. The attorneys write that they previously requested Blanche issue a correction to the statements but that counsel for the government refused.

Read more: https://abcnews.com/US/southern-poverty-law-center-todd-blanche-correct-false/story?id=132454422

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Southern Poverty Law Center wants Todd Blanche to correct 'false' statements about organization (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Tuesday OP
Blanche lying? Unbelievable. NOT. NoMoreRepugs Tuesday #1
Lying is their main credo at this point wolfie001 Tuesday #2

wolfie001

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2. Lying is their main credo at this point
Tue Apr 28, 2026, 08:20 PM
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Always putting their hands on the scales of justice. They do it because they're all either christo-fascists or the bootlickers for christo-fascism. Evil administration from top to bottom. And there is no bottom with these foul mother-fuckers.

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