Alabama
Entries whose effect landed somewhere in Alabama (AL) — a city, a county, a campus, a detention facility — whichever government acted. Federal conduct inside Alabama counts here.
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4 entries · 2 places
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Montgomery city 3 entries
Southern Poverty Law Center moves to dismiss DOJ fraud indictment as vindictive prosecution
On May 26, 2026, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama asking a federal judge to dismiss as vindictive prosecution the 11-count indictment the Justice Department obtained against it in April 2026 on wire-fraud, false-statement, and money-laundering charges. The motion documents a sustained pattern of public hostility from President Trump and senior officials toward the civil-rights group — including Trump branding it "one of the greatest political scams in American History" — and notes the FBI and IRS reviewed the same conduct in 2019-2020 without seeking charges, only for the case to be reopened after SPLC became a frequent target of the administration. The court has not yet ruled on the motion.
Alabama AG Marshall subpoenaed Southern Poverty Law Center's donor and hate-group records in civil probe
On May 11, 2026, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall opened a civil investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center and issued a civil investigative subpoena demanding the group's donor records, its disbursements to informants, and payment records tied to organizations in its "extremist files" and "hate map," with documents due June 1. Marshall invoked Alabama's Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the group's pending federal fraud indictment, saying the office had "always suspected that they were monetizing hate." The subpoena's reach into records connected to SPLC's hate-group designations extended state investigative power into the watchdog's advocacy work.
DOJ indicts Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts of fraud over $3M informant payments
On April 21, 2026, a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama returned an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, charging the 55-year-old civil-rights organization with wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering over a covert program in which the SPLC says it paid confidential sources to infiltrate violent extremist groups. The indictment came after the FBI under Director Kash Patel had severed its long-running relationship with the SPLC, and amid publicly expressed presidential pressure on the Justice Department to pursue prosecutions of political opponents. SPLC interim CEO Bryan Fair said the organization was "targeted" by the administration and that its informant work "saved lives."
Calhoun County county 1 entry
ICE detained 85-year-old French widow of U.S. Army veteran for two weeks over visa overstay
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained Marie-Therese Ross, an 85-year-old French national and widow of a U.S. Army veteran, at her home in Calhoun County, Alabama, on April 1, 2026, over a 90-day visa overstay. She was held roughly two weeks at a federal detention facility in Louisiana before returning to France on April 17, and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said some of ICE's methods in the case were "not in line" with French standards.