2026年4月28日 / 美国东部时间上午10:29 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿讯——南方贫困法律中心（SPLC）已采取行动，要求披露针对该组织的刑事案件中的大陪审团相关材料，理由是特朗普政府官员在该组织于上周遭到起诉后发表了“误导性”言论，以及法院文件中存在“明显的法律瑕疵”。
此次提交文件的背景是，阿拉巴马州的一名联邦大陪审团于上周对该组织提起诉讼，指控其犯有11项与电信欺诈和银行欺诈相关的罪名。美国司法部指控该组织向极端组织成员支付报酬，以此作为其调查这些组织的手段，却未向捐赠者或银行披露这一做法。
南方贫困法律中心是一家追踪美国境内白人至上主义者及其他仇恨团体的非营利组织，长期以来一直是特朗普总统盟友的频繁攻击目标。该组织已否认这些指控。
“此次起诉堪称对司法部政策和既定法律的惊人且持续的背离，”代表南方贫困法律中心的律师在周二提交的动议中表示，“它试图将南方贫困法律中心数十年来用来渗透并瓦解诸如三K党和雅利安民族等暴力极端组织的部分调查工具和项目定为犯罪——这些侦查手段曾提供了关键情报，并已分享给包括联邦调查局在内的执法部门。”
该组织的律师辩称，起诉书中遗漏了犯罪意图的构成要素，并表示驳回此案的动议“即将提交”。
“这些具体的违规行为表明，大陪审团不仅被政府对法律的陈述误导，而且大陪审团很可能被蓄意用作武器，以促成此类指控的成立，”南方贫困法律中心称。
该组织指出，代理司法部长托德·布兰奇和联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔就南方贫困法律中心的工作向媒体发表的言论是“虚假且具有误导性的”，其中包括布兰奇在福克斯新闻节目中发表的言论，即南方贫困法律中心未在2017年弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔市“联合右翼”集会之前，将其从付费线人处获得的信息分享给联邦执法部门。
但该组织表示，布兰奇的说法并不属实，因为该组织曾就此次集会及潜在暴力风险编写了一份报告，并发送给了包括阿拉巴马州莫比尔市联邦调查局办事处在内的多家执法机构。
南方贫困法律中心请求法院下令公布大陪审团笔录。尽管联邦规则通常要求大陪审团审理的事项保密，但该组织辩称，其需要这些笔录来确定政府是否向大陪审团提交了“不准确或具有误导性的”陈述。
在周二提交的另一份文件中，南方贫困法律中心要求布兰奇撤回其言论，并表示在此次起诉之前，该组织已于今年早些时候在两次与联邦执法部门的会面中，向司法部提供了有关线人工作的详细信息。
南方贫困法律中心表示，至少其中一起线人案件中的信息已导致一名与极端组织有关联的个人被定罪。
该组织还请求法院下令，禁止政府进一步发表“任何虚假或具有偏见的言论”，以免损害其获得公平审判的权利。
“代理司法部长布兰奇的虚假言论引发了人们的担忧，即大陪审团可能听取了错误陈述，声称南方贫困法律中心从未将从线人处获得的信息分享给政府，以及基于这一错误主张提出的论点，”代表南方贫困法律中心的律师在文件中写道。
该组织临时主席兼首席执行官布莱恩·费尔在一份声明中表示，南方贫困法律中心四十多年来与联邦调查局分享的信息拯救了许多生命。
“我们强烈否认起诉书中的指控，我们的法院文件已经揭露了这些指控的虚假性，”他在声明中说，“政府公然歪曲了我们多年来为打击仇恨和暴力极端主义所付出的努力。”
Southern Poverty Law Center seeks disclosure of grand jury transcripts in criminal case
April 28, 2026 / 10:29 AM EDT / CBS News
Washington — The Southern Poverty Law Center moved to force the disclosure of grand jury materials in the criminal case against the organization, citing what it said were “misleading” statements from Trump administration officials in the aftermath of the indictment last week and “obvious legal infirmities” in court filings.
The filings come after a federal grand jury in Alabama indicted the group on 11 counts of wire and bank fraud-related charges last week. The Justice Department accused the group of paying members of extremist groups as part of its efforts to investigate them without disclosing the practice to donors or banks.
The SPLC is a nonprofit that tracks white supremacist and other hate groups across the U.S., and has been a frequent target of President Trump’s allies. It has denied the allegations.
“This indictment represents a stunning and unremitting departure from Justice Department policy and established law,” attorneys representing the SPLC said in a motion filed Tuesday. “It seeks to criminalize some of the very investigative tools and programs that the SPLC has used for decades to infiltrate and dismantle violent extremist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations — tradecraft that has produced vital intelligence that has been shared with law enforcement, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
Attorneys representing the group argued that the indictment omits elements of criminal intent, and said that a motion to dismiss the case is “forthcoming.”
“These particularized irregularities suggest that the grand jury was not merely misled by the government’s presentation of the law, but likely that it was actively weaponized to facilitate such charges,” the SPLC said.
The group argued that comments made to the media by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel about the SPLC’s work are “false and misleading,” including statements Blanche made on Fox News that the SPLC had not shared information it learned from its paid informants with federal law enforcement ahead of the “Unite the Right” Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
But the organization said Blanche’s statement is not true, as it had compiled information about the event and the potential for violence in a report that was sent to law enforcement agencies, including the FBI’s office in Mobile, Alabama.
The SPLC asked the court to order the release of grand-jury transcripts. While federal rules typically require matters before a grand jury to be kept secret, the organization argued that it needs the transcripts to determine whether the government presented the panel with “inaccurate or misleading” representations.
In a separate filing Tuesday, the SPLC moved to force Blanche to retract his statements, and said that ahead of the indictment, the SPLC provided details about informant work to the Justice Department in two separate meetings with federal law enforcement earlier this year.
The SPLC said that information in at least one of the informant cases led to a criminal conviction of an individual associated with an extremist group.
The organization is also seeking a court order directing the government to refrain from making “any further false or otherwise prejudicial statements” that would compromise its right to a fair trial.
“Acting Attorney General Blanche’s false statement gives rise to the concern that the grand jury heard evidence which incorrectly represented that the SPLC never shared information received from informants with the government, as well as arguments premised on that erroneous assertion,” attorneys representing the SPLC wrote in their filing.
Bryan Fair, interim president and CEO of the group, said in a statement that information the SPLC has shared with the FBI over four decades has saved lives.
“We strongly deny the allegations in the indictment and their falsity is already being exposed in our court filings,” he said in a statement. “The government is blatantly mischaracterizing our efforts to successfully fight hatred and violent extremism, something we have done for decades.”
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