Following a $3.4 million settlement for defamation, the floodgates appear to have officially opened on the partisan Southern Poverty Law Center for its reckless use of its "hate group" and "extremist" designations. According to PJ Media's Tyler O'Neil, at least 60 organizations that the self-styled "hate group watchdog" has branded as "extremist" are now considering taking legal action.
"No fewer than 60 organizations branded 'hate groups' or otherwise attacked by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) are considering legal action against the left-wing smear factory, a Christian legal nonprofit leader confirmed to PJ Media on Tuesday," O'Neil reported.
The confirmation comes a day after SPLC issued an apology and wrote a $3.375 million check to Maajid Nawaz and his Quilliam Foundation for including them on its incendiary 2016 "Field Guild to Anti-Muslim Extremists."
"We haven't filed anything against the SPLC, but I think a number of organizations have been considering filing lawsuits against the SPLC, because they have been doing to a lot of organizations exactly what they did to Maajid Nawaz that's part of the settlement," founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, Mat Staver, told PJ Media Tuesday.
"There are probably about 60 organizations that we're talking to — there's at least 60," he said.
"This is a significant settlement," said Staver of SPLC's settlement with Nawaz. "3.375 million dollars, and it did not even go to litigation; it was a result of a demand letter."
"[T]he allegations that were at issue here were very similar to the allegations against the other groups," he said. "The SPLC promotes false propaganda, demonizes and labels groups they disagree with, and that labeling has economic as well as physical consequences."
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