Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) blasted the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “one giant grift” that, she said, funded racism and targeted Christian Americans. Her remarks came as House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan pushed for answers after the Justice Departm
Rep. Nancy Mace did not mince words during an interview on Saturday. She described the Southern Poverty Law Center as “one giant grift” built around “funding racism,” and said the nonprofit’s leaders should be “sitting in prison.”
Mace argued the organization was not only “paying for racism” but “grifting off of racism. ” and she tied the effort to a broader political fight. “I believe. ” she said. that the SPLC acted “in concert with the Democrats and the Biden administration. ” while working to “go after Christians” and “American patriots” — actions she said have made the country “more divisive than it’s ever been because of their hatred.”.
She pressed further on accountability, telling viewers that the SPLC “need[s] to be held to account” and that leaders should be jailed. “They should probably all be sitting in prison,” Mace said, adding, “and I look forward to Jim Jordan getting to the bottom of this.”
Jordan, the GOP lawmaker from Ohio, is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. He spearheaded a meeting last week focused on the SPLC’s alleged crimes after the Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced 11 charges against the organization last month. The charges span from bank fraud to money laundering.
The Justice Department’s allegations. as described in the report. say the SPLC “secretly funneled” $3 million to hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan and toward the white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in 2017. The DOJ also alleged the group paid $1 million to an informant inside a neo-Nazi organization to steal documents from the group.
Mace also raised a demand aimed at the SPLC’s leadership. She said that if the SPLC boss Bryan Fair would not testify before Congress “on his own volition,” he should be “subpoenaed, given a date, and he needs to show up or be behind bars.”
During the same interview. guest host Jonathan Hunt asked whether it was fair to say the group was “stoking hatred almost to justify their own existence.” Mace replied that it was “100%” accurate. “That was the sole purpose of their existence,” she said. She then delivered her strongest line: “If they can’t portray people at as racist. they don’t have a reason to exist. This is wrong, this is illegal, and every single one of ’em should go to jail.”.
The thrust of Mace’s argument ties two tracks together: the Justice Department’s allegations about the SPLC’s alleged financial conduct—bank fraud and money laundering among them—and her belief that the organization’s broader mission. as she frames it. is inherently designed to “stoke hatred” rather than address discrimination. As the House Judiciary Committee seeks testimony and the DOJ pursues charges. her message is clear: she wants the dispute resolved in court. and she wants it fast.
Nancy Mace SPLC Southern Poverty Law Center Jim Jordan House Judiciary Committee Todd Blanche DOJ charges bank fraud money laundering Ku Klux Klan Unite the Right Bryan Fair
Jail seems kinda extreme but if the DOJ has charges then yeah, start there.
SPLC has always felt shady to me, like they pick and choose what racism is. Also “targeting Christians” sounds like a reach but idk, politics is gross.
Wait so the SPLC funneled money to the KKK?? I’m not defending anyone but where did that $3 mil come from, like donations from churches?? And if this is true then Jordan is right to ask questions, but I feel like everyone just wants headlines.
This is why I don’t trust nonprofits with “law” in their name. They’re like grifters but then the other side is grifters too. The article said jail for “leaders” like ok but who exactly, and are they already convicted or just accused? Honestly half these groups are probably laundering something.