💬 Opinion 6h ago · Eugene Volokh

Thought Experiment: It's 2030, and the Newsom Justice Department Indicts a Conservative Group for Paying Antifa Leaders

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I blogged Wednesday about the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for, among other things, supposedly defrauding donors. The theory is that the SPLC raised money by telling donors that it was aiming to "dismantle" violent extremist groups—but spent over $3M paying hate group leaders for information and, in at least one instance, to actually put out hate messages at the SPLC's direction. The indictment also alleges that, to hide the source of the funds, the SPLC caused false statements

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