Following a grand jury indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, CREW President Donald K. Sherman released the following statement: 

“The Southern Poverty Law Center has spent the past 50 years as one of the nation’s most critical bulwarks against the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups. That the same administration that has gone out of its way to pardon white supremacists and other extremists for seditious conspiracy would then accuse SPLC of backing these groups would be laughable if it weren’t so terrifying. SPLC has explained that its use of paid informants to infiltrate hate groups was used to gain invaluable information later shared with state and federal law enforcement, including the very same Justice Department now investigating the organization. This is yet another attempt by the Trump administration to rewrite American history, prosecute dissent and erode the civil rights of millions of Americans. By going after SPLC like this, it is clear who the administration supports in the fight against white nationalism.”