SPLC Arraignment: DOJ's Hate Network Allegations

0:00Federal Court in Montgomery sets an arraignment hearing for the Southern Poverty Law Center this Thursday, May 7, in a big Department of Justice. Case. Prosecutors say the group ran a secret network since the 1980s, paying people tied to hay outfits like the Ku Klux Klan, some even planted. There by the center itself, donors had no clue their cash went to leaders and planners of those same racist crews, even as the center blasted them online and raked in millions to. Fight hate. The center fire back hard this week, filing motions for a full grand jury transcript and demanding acting attorney general Todd Blanche pull back. What they call a misleading Fox news comment that could bias the case. Blanche claimed on air that the center paid these insiders but never passed tips to law enforcement or else Feds would have caught on sooner from. Their own records. Attorneys for the center argue the court needs to step in quick to keep things fair as this legal showdown heats up.

1:00From your city, powered by AI, this is Birmingham News Today. I'm Corey with the story.