President Joe Biden’s White House notoriously helped craft the National School Boards Association’s letter comparing concerned parents to domestic terrorists back in October 2021. That letter, later retracted, led to an FBI memo, also later retracted.
But last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center carried on this theme by adding parental rights groups to its “hate map,” which puts conservative groups alongside the Ku Klux Klan.
SPLC leaders and staff met with White House officials at least 11 times since January 2021, when Biden took office, and Biden nominated an SPLC attorney to a federal appeals court. The SPLC’s ties with the Biden administration raise troubling questions about whether the administration plans to target concerned parents again.
Yet new evidence suggests that the SPLC may have been involved in the original effort to target concerned…
