FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-leaning nonprofit, pressured a well-known figure in the Biden-Harris administration not to attend a bipartisan summit to promote religious freedom around the world, documents uncovered by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project show.
According to the documents, first published by The Daily Signal, multiple SPLC staff and leaders reached out to the U.S. Agency for International Development to suggest that USAID Administrator Samantha Power, who previously served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President Barack Obama, should not attend the bipartisan International Religious Freedom Summit in 2023.
“We have several concerns about this summit, in particular that some of the featured speakers belong to SPLC-designated hate groups and are well known for their anti-LGBTQ beliefs,” Susan…
