The Second Circuit Court of Appeals set oral arguments in the SPLC’s frivolous appeal in Jenkins v. Miller 

We have already requested sanctions against the SPLC for deceiving the court in order to harm Liberty Counsel.

For more than a decade, Liberty Counsel has been forced to battle a frivolous lawsuit launched by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and its client, Janet Jenkins. 

Jenkins irrationally demanded an impossible 200 billion dollars and falsely claimed Liberty Counsel helped Lisa Miller and her biological daughter leave the country. After 11,000 hours of legal work, 25 depositions, 186,000 pages, and thousands of exhibits, a federal judge ruled that the SPLC’s allegations were completely without merit.

But the SPLC refuses to stop. Despite seeing the full record and knowing they cannot win, the SPLC has filed an appeal — and submitted what can only be described as a deceptive brief that misrepresents the facts and ignores the evidence and the court’s findings.  

Liberty Counsel has requested the court impose sanctions because the SPLC has raced past the ethical line. 

We will present oral arguments to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on October 23.

This is more than a lawsuit. The SPLC has one goal: to destroy Liberty Counsel. Help us fight back by supporting our legal fund today. A special Challenge Grant will DOUBLE your impact.

For years, the SPLC has used its enormous 732-million-dollar endowment to label peaceful organizations as “hate groups,” inflating numbers to raise money and attack those who disagree with its ideology — even as they paid actual neo-Nazi hate groups to generate actual hate. 

In fact, the U.S. Department of Justice and a Grand Jury have already indicted the SPLC and its former “Director of Intelligence,” Heidi Beirich, on multiple fraud charges. 

The SPLC used donations to fund white supremacy groups and then reported on those groups to raise more funds. The SPLC funded and helped organize the white supremacists in Charlottesville, VA, and then when violence broke out, it raised money under the guise of wanting to stop the white supremacy groups.  

The SPLC’s pattern is unmistakable: smear, overwhelm, and silence their opponents.

Now the SPLC is using its vast resources to bury us in legal costs and drain our time — time we should devote to defending religious freedom, the sanctity of human life, and the family.

As I noted above, the lower court sided with Liberty Counsel in April 2025. But the SPLC appealed as part of their lawfare campaign, so now we must argue our case again before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

The truth is on our side. We simply need the resources to keep fighting.

We urgently need your help.

This appeal — despite having no factual basis — demands substantial legal work to defeat. And with the SPLC openly admitting its intent to crush groups like ours, we must respond decisively.

Our legal team has spent many hours preparing our response.

Your gift today will strengthen our legal defense fund and help ensure that this attack does not succeed.

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