SPLC Warned Law Enforcement About Las Vegas Terror Plan, New Motions Say
Newly filed motions seek to determine what grand jurors were told by Trump administration prior to indictment of Southern Poverty Law Center.
Attorneys for the Southern Poverty Law Center fired back against the Trump administration Tuesday in a pair of filings that accuse prosecutors of ignoring critical evidence in its indictment of the civil rights organization, perhaps even misleading grand jurors who approved the charges.
In the filings, SPLC lawyers argue that the group helped thwart a potential terrorist attack in Las Vegas in 2019 and tried to warn law enforcement before the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017.
Defense attorneys are asking the court to unseal transcripts of grand jury proceedings to determine what grand jurors were told. The motions also ask for an order requiring Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to retract statements he made on Fox News and prohibiting Trump administration officials from continuing to wage a pre-trial PR campaign against the group.
“This prosecution is as unprecedented as it is irregular,” SPLC lawyers argue in one of…
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