EXCLUSIVE — Staff at the U.S. Department of Justice accepted a “Year in Hate and Extremism” briefing from the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, during which the parental rights group Moms for Liberty was characterized as a “reactionary anti-student inclusion” and “anti-government extremist” group.
The SPLC offered a briefing to the DOJ on its annual extremism report last summer, shortly after designating Moms for Liberty an “extremist” organization — a designation it boasted to DOJ officials as the first of its kind.
Emails obtained by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project through a public records request show DOJ officials interested in the briefing that claimed pro-parent groups like Moms for Liberty are “working to burnish connections to far-right politicians and normalize assaults on inclusive education.”
The Justice Department confirmed to the Washington Examiner on Wednesday that it accepted the briefing
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