SPLC Indicted for Being the SPLC; 10 Commandments in Classrooms; Trump’s Stupid Ballroom

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The episode discusses the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Trump administration's claims about a White House ballroom, and a court ruling on displaying the 10 Commandments in schools.

OA1255 - Has the Southern Poverty Law Center really just been indicted for helping to provide information to the FBI? Did the Trump administration really just tell a federal judge that building a White House ballroom was a matter of “national security”? Did the 5th Circuit really just require Texas to display the 10 Commandments in every public school classroom? We take on these questions and many more before getting to our footnote: Did a Rolls-Royce hating bear really just commit insurance fraud in California? Indictment in U.S. v. Southern Poverty Law Center (filed April 21, 2026) Trump Administration Finally Discloses White House Ballroom Funding Contract in Response to Public Citizen’s FOIA Lawsuit , Public Citizen (April 22, 2026) “The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center,” Bob Moser , The New Yorker , (March 21, 2019) Memorandum opinion in National Trust For Historic Preservation in the United States v. National Park Service et al , DC Dist. Ct. (Leon, J., 3/31/26) Nathan et al v. Alamo Independent School District , No. 25-56095 (5th Cir. April 21, 2026) “Operation Bear Claw,” California Department of Insurance Check out the OA Linktree for all the…

People in this episode

Host: Opening Arguments

Topics covered

• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Trump administration
• 10 Commandments
• public schools
• insurance fraud
• national security

Keywords

• SPLC
• Trump
• 10 Commandments
• public schools
• insurance fraud
• national security
• court ruling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Southern Poverty Law Center, Trump administration, California Department of Insurance

Books & works: The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center

Places: Texas

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