Democrats defended the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and its mission to manufacture hate hoaxes and target conservatives by claiming Tuesday that the SPLC is basically a government law enforcement agency and also not at all anything like a government law enforcement agency.
At the second edition of the House Judiciary Committee hearing series “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate,” Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., indicated the SPLC has the same power and authority as the FBI or other government law enforcement agencies to maintain confidential informants in extremist groups — and, ostensibly, to then fundraise off the manufactured chaos.
