2026年5月1日 美国东部时间上午10:42 / CNN
作者：蒂尔尼·斯尼德
左侧为众议员杰米·拉斯金，右侧为众议员玛丽·盖伊·斯坎隆，两人于2月23日出席国会山听证会。
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众议院民主党人在致司法部副部长助理阿卡什·辛格的新信件中表示，议员们已收到举报人报告，指控一名司法部高级官员向检察官施压，要求其尽快起诉南方贫困法律中心，尽管该案存在诸多疑虑。
众议员杰米·拉斯金与玛丽·盖伊·斯坎隆要求辛格提供有关该调查的信息，并称此次起诉是“动用检察权力攻击公民社会的骇人滥用行为”。
司法部于上月提起的刑事诉讼中指控，南方贫困法律中心——该机构因将右翼组织贴上仇恨团体标签而招致唐纳德·特朗普总统及其他共和党人的愤怒——未告知捐赠者其向仇恨团体成员支付秘密款项作为线人，以此欺骗捐赠者。
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南方贫困法律中心否认了相关指控，民主党人在信件中将此次起诉描述为“权宜且荒谬的”。
司法部未立即回应置评请求。
众议院民主党人表示：“司法部通过起诉进行洗脑式误导的做法，还要求美国民众视而不见，假装南方贫困法律中心为渗透白人至上主义团体所支付的款项是用于支持这些团体，尽管起诉文件中提交了相反证据。”
民主党人还致信负责提起该案的阿拉巴马州中区代理美国检察官凯文·P·戴维森，要求其提供有关该调查的信息。
此次新信件预示着，如果民主党今年重掌众议院并获得传票权力，他们将优先处理相关事宜。
Lawmakers accuse Justice Department of rushing SPLC indictment, citing whistleblower reports
2026-05-01 10:42 AM ET / CNN
By Tierney Sneed
Rep. Jamie Raskin, left, and Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon attend a hearing on Capitol Hill on February 23.
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Lawmakers have received whistle blower reports accusing a top Justice Department official of pressuring prosecutors to work quickly to indict the Southern Poverty Law Center despite misgivings about the case, House Democrats said in a new letter to the official, Associate Deputy Attorney General Aakash Singh.
Reps. Jamie Raskin and Mary Gay Scanlon are demanding that Singh provide information about the investigation, while arguing that the indictment amounted to a “shocking abuse of prosecutorial power to attack civil society.”
The Justice Department alleges in the criminal case brought last month that the Southern Poverty Law Center — which has drawn the ire of President Donald Trump and other Republicans for labeling right-wing organizations as hate groups — defrauded donors by not informing them of secret payments to hate group members to act as informants.
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The SPLC has denied the allegations, and the Democrats described the indictment in the letter as “makeshift and nonsensical.”
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to comment for this story.
“DOJ’s exercise in gaslighting-by-indictment also requires America to bury its head in the sand and pretend SPLC’s payments to infiltrate white nationalist groups were meant to support them, despite evidence to the contrary presented in its charging document,” the House Democrats said.
The Democrats also sent a letter to Acting US Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama Kevin P. Davidson, whose office brought the case, seeking information about the investigation.
The new letters preview what Democrats will prioritize if they retake the House this year and get subpoena power.
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