From The Federalist
A government watchdog filed an updated IRS complaint on Thursday challenging the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) tax-exempt status, The Federalist has learned. The move comes days after the far-left organization was indicted on charges related to allegedly making fraudulent payments to extremist groups including the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Filed by the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA), the supplemental letter obtained by The Federalist requests that the IRS probe the SPLC’s tax-exempt status in light of the recent charges returned by an Alabama-based grand jury. CASA previously submitted a similar complaint with the IRS against the SPLC in October 2025 over what it described as “partisan political activit[ies]” that it claimed “are grounds for immediate revocation of charitable status.”