Mississippi’s Republican Governor Tate Reeves on Friday evening announced he is calling a special legislative session for redistricting once the US Supreme Court rules on voting rights (Louisiana v. Callais).

Governor Reeves said the legislature will convene 21 days after the Supreme Court issues a ruling.

President Trump’s Department of Justice, through Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon and Solicitor General John Sauer, told the US Supreme Court that race-based congressional districts must end once and for all.

The case, State of Louisiana v. Phillip Callais (and the related Press Robinson v. Phillip Callais), stems from Louisiana’s woke lawmakers caving to left-wing judges and creating a second “majority-minority” congressional district.

Here are the key takedowns:

1. No More Race-First Districts Without Proof: Plaintiffs must prove their proposed majority-minority district is “superior” to the state’s map under race-neutral rules, including political goals. Otherwise, it’s just assuming racism where none exists.
2. Decouple Race from Party: The brief slams how courts let Democrats hide behind “polarized voting” that’s really just partisan divides. “Plaintiffs must decouple party from race when determining whether majority and minority voters vote differently,” it states. No more using black voters’ loyalty to Democrats as an excuse for gerrymandering.
3. Real Evidence of Discrimination Required: Echoing Shelby County v. Holder (which gutted outdated VRA provisions in 2013), the DOJ says current conditions don’t justify this nonsense. Voter turnout is sky-high, minorities are winning elections everywhere – including in Congress, where black representation is at record levels.

Full statement from Tate Reeves:

I don’t typically make news on a Friday afternoon, but today I am going to make an exception:

I’m calling a special session.

During the recently completed regular session, the Legislature discussed drawing new maps to comply with a decision from a federal judge from the Northern District of Mississippi – a decision that has been appealed to the 5th Circuit and the appeal has been heretofore stayed pending future U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

The entire world knows the Callais decision has not yet been handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court. It is a decision that could (and in my view should) forever change the way we draw electoral maps.

It is my belief and federal law requires that the Mississippi Legislature be given the first opportunity to draw these maps. And the fact is, they haven’t had a fair opportunity to do that because of the pending Callais decision.

For those reasons, I am using my constitutional authority to allow the Mississippi Legislature to use their constitutionally recognized right to draw these maps once the new rules of the game are known following Callais.

It is my sincere hope that, in deciding Callais, the U.S. Supreme Court will reaffirm the animating principle that all Americans are created equal and that when the government classifies its citizens on the basis of race, even as a perceived remedy to right a wrong, it engages in the offensive and demeaning assumption that Americans of a particular race, because of their race, think alike and share the same interests and preferences – a concept that is odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

The special session will take place on the calendar day that falls 21 days after the U.S. Supreme Court issues the Callais decision.

I don’t typically make news on a Friday afternoon, but today I am going to make an exception:

I’m calling a special session.

During the recently completed regular session, the Legislature discussed drawing new maps to comply with a decision from a federal judge from the… pic.twitter.com/wEnFw5xkHk

— Governor Tate Reeves (@tatereeves) April 24, 2026

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The Department of Justice under the Trump administration announced on Friday that it is officially reinstating death by firing squad as a permissible method of execution for federal death row inmates.

The move is part of several broader reforms aimed at “restoring the Department’s solemn duty to seek, obtain, and implement lawful capital sentences,” which includes readopting the lethal injection protocol used during President Donald Trump’s first term, expanding available execution methods to include the firing squad and other constitutional alternatives, and streamlining internal processes to expedite death penalty cases.

The department also released a report titled “Restoring and Strengthening the Federal Death Penalty.”

“The prior administration failed in its duty to protect the American people by refusing to pursue and carry out the ultimate punishment against the most dangerous criminals, including terrorists, child murderers, and cop killers,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a press release.

Blanche continued, “Under President Trump’s leadership, the Department of Justice is once again enforcing the law and standing with victims.”

The department criticized the Biden administration for imposing a moratorium on federal executions, directing prosecutors not to seek the death penalty in appropriate cases, dismantling key capital punishment infrastructure, and recommending the commutation of 37 lawful death sentences without fully consulting victims’ families or prosecutors.

“Under the leadership of President Trump and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Justice Department is committed to correcting these failures and restoring the lawful administration of the death penalty,” the department said in the announcement.

“The Department has rescinded the Biden-Garland moratorium on federal executions and has authorized seeking death sentences against 44 defendants. Acting Attorney General Blanche has already authorized seeking death sentences against nine of these defendants, including three MS-13 members, two of whom are illegal aliens, accused of murdering a federal witness.”

The DOJ cited serious supply and legal challenges with lethal injection drugs as a major reason for expanding options.

Some states have already reinstated firing squads due to these issues.

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The Minnesota House Fraud Prevention and State Oversight Committee has given Rep. Ilhan Omar a firm May 5th deadline to turn over all records and communications related to her possible involvement in the infamous Feeding Our Future scandal.

The demand follows Omar’s refusal to appear at a scheduled committee hearing earlier this week, despite being formally invited.

Committee Chair Rep. Kristin Robbins, a Republican, confirmed the congresswoman “ghosted” the panel and failed to respond to multiple outreach attempts.

“The fact that she ghosted us — she would not even respond to multiple inquiries to a state legislature where she used to serve,” Robbins said, according to a report from NewsNation. “I think it shows disdain for Minnesota taxpayers that she’s unwilling to even answer these questions.”

In a formal letter sent to Omar on April 22, Chair Robbins is now requiring:

• All written and electronic communications between Omar’s office and the convicted owners/operators of Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis (a key Feeding Our Future site where Omar held multiple campaign events).
• Communications with more than a dozen individuals who have already been convicted in the massive fraud case.
• Records related to Omar’s sponsorship of the MEALS Act — the 2020 federal legislation that dramatically loosened eligibility rules for child nutrition programs during COVID, which prosecutors say directly enabled the fraud.

If Omar fails to comply, the committee has signaled it will explore further legislative and congressional options, though state lawmakers have limited direct enforcement power over a member of Congress.

The Feeding Our Future case involved the theft of more than $250 million in federal child nutrition funds meant for meals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prosecutors have described it as one of the largest fraud schemes in American history.

Much of the money went to luxury cars, jewelry, real estate, and even overseas accounts, primarily funneled through Minnesota-based nonprofit organizations tied to the local Somali community.

Safari Restaurant was identified as a major “meal site” that submitted millions in fraudulent claims. Omar has long had public ties to the restaurant, including holding campaign events there and appearing there to promote related programs.

The Minnesota House committee has repeatedly accused Omar of helping enable the fraud through her sponsorship of the MEALS Act, which removed key guardrails on reimbursements for meal providers.

“She created the conditions that allowed all these bad actors to come in and bill for thousands of meals a day,” Robbins said. “One little tiny restaurant serving 5,000 meals a day, seven days a week — it was incomprehensible numbers.”

Omar has not publicly responded to the committee’s deadline or her refusal to appear at the hearing.

“The American people and certainly the taxpayers of Minnesota deserve her to come and answer these questions,” Robbins said. “If she had nothing to do with it, if she had no ill intent, if she had no idea — she should come and defend that.”

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The former staffer who alleged Eric Swalwell raped her in 2024 is cooperating with the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation, according to CNN.

Earlier this month, the Manhattan District Attorney launched an investigation into Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell over serious allegations of sexual assault.

The San Francisco Chronicle recently published a story about a woman who claimed that Democrat Eric Swalwell sexually assaulted her twice.

The woman, who worked as a staffer in Swalwell’s office for two years, told the San Francisco Chronicle that Swalwell began pursuing her just weeks after she was hired at the age of 21 in 2019.

After the San Francisco Chronicle dropped its bombshell report on Swalwell, three additional women spoke to CNN and provided evidence about alleged additional misconduct by the California Democrat.

The Swalwell staffer said she was sexually assaulted by Swalwell in 2019

The staffer also said Swalwell raped her years later in 2024 after she left his employment.

The unidentified former female staffer sat down with CNN and recounted some of the horrific details about the alleged rape that occurred in 2024.

“I went to the bathroom, and I don’t remember anything after that,” she said, adding that she “remembered the next day.”

“I can see flashes of that evening of him on top of me, me pushing him off, him grabbing me. It was a lot more aggressive. It was aggressive,” she said about the 2024 assault.

“He didn’t stop. He didn’t stop. I woke up the next morning naked, alone in his hotel. I, for a moment, didn’t even know that I was in his hotel room. That’s how intoxicated I was,” she said.

CNN said they corroborated the woman’s claims by speaking with friends and family that she confided in. CNN also reviewed photos and screenshots of contemporaneous text messages. The outlet reviewed a message from her medical provider the week after she received the pregnancy and STD test calling her a “survivor.”

On Friday, CNN reported that Swalwell’s accuser has retained counsel and is cooperating with the Manhattan DA’s investigation.

CNN reported:

A former staffer who accused former California Rep. Eric Swalwell of raping her is now cooperating with an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, she told CNN.

The woman, who said Swalwell raped her in a New York City hotel in April 2024, shared her story with CNN and the San Francisco Chronicle earlier this month. She also accused Swalwell of having nonconsensual sexual contact with her after a night of heavy drinking in California in 2019, when she worked for him as a junior staffer.

The Manhattan DA’s office launched an investigation into the allegations a day after CNN’s initial report. Swalwell dropped out of the California governor’s race shortly afterward, and then resigned his seat in Congress.

Swalwell said at the time that “these allegations are false,” and vowed to “defend myself with the facts and where necessary bring legal action.”

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A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. The DOJ alleges that between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC paid at least $3 million to individuals affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America, Unite the Right, the National Alliance, the National Socialist Movement, the National Socialist Party of America, the Aryan Nations-affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, and the American Front.

The payments were made through fictitious entities, including “Fox Photography” and “Rare Books Warehouse,” and the SPLC never disclosed this informant program to donors. One informant received more than $1 million while affiliated with the neo-Nazi National Alliance; another was the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the charges alongside FBI Director Kash Patel, who had previously severed the bureau’s relationship with the SPLC, calling it a “partisan smear machine.” The SPLC reported over $800 million in assets as of 2024. Interim CEO Bryan Fair called the allegations false, saying the SPLC’s sources had “risked their lives” and provided information to the FBI that “saved lives.” The indictment does not allege that funds went directly to the hate groups themselves, only to affiliated individuals.

The indictment is the latest development in a long record of the SPLC using its “hate group” designation against Christian organizations, a pattern that produced real-world violence, a nationwide Catholic surveillance program, and the systematic exclusion of Christian ministries from donor platforms. The irony is that the vast majority of African Americans the SPLC purports to defend are themselves Christians, particularly in the South.

The SPLC designated the Family Research Council (FRC) as a hate group in 2010. In August 2012, Floyd Lee Corkins II entered FRC’s Washington headquarters armed with a 9mm pistol and multiple magazines. He told the FBI, “Southern Poverty Law lists anti-gay groups. I found them online, did a little research, went to the website, stuff like that.”

Prosecutors said his mission was to kill as many people as possible; a security guard was shot but stopped the attack. Corkins pleaded guilty to committing an act of terrorism while armed and was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2013. FRC President Tony Perkins stated that Corkins “was given a license by a group such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, who labeled us a hate group because we defend the family and we stand for traditional, orthodox Christianity.” A decade after the attack, FRC remained on the SPLC hate map.

The SPLC also designated the Alliance Defending Freedom as a hate group, an organization founded in 1994 by Christian leaders, including James Dobson, Bill Bright, and D. James Kennedy, which has since secured 64 victories before the United States Supreme Court. Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III wrote in the Wall Street Journal that placing ADF alongside KKK chapters was “not only wrong, it’s malicious.”

In 2015, the SPLC listed Dr. Ben Carson, an African American neurosurgeon, as an extremist for opposing same-sex marriage, placing him alongside KKK and neo-Nazi groups. The SPLC was forced to apologize and remove him from the list after public backlash.

In January 2023, the FBI’s Richmond Field Office produced an internal memo identifying “radical traditionalist Catholics” as potential domestic violent extremists, drawing on SPLC designations as a primary source.

The memo listed specific groups, including Catholic Apologetics International and the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It treated adherence to the Latin Mass and opposition to abortion as indicators of potential radicalization.

Newly released documents confirmed the memo was circulated among multiple FBI divisions, viewed by over 1,000 employees, and endorsed by field offices in Buffalo, Milwaukee, Louisville, Los Angeles, and Portland. Internal emails show that then-Deputy Director Paul Abbate ordered the memo deleted from FBI systems, and that another official deleted access logs identifying who had viewed it.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said he found at least 13 FBI documents produced between 2009 and 2023 that used what he called “anti-Catholic terminology” and relied on SPLC information. Twenty state attorneys general criticized the FBI for citing the SPLC, apparently without independent vetting.

By June 2025, the SPLC had added Focus on the Family to its hate map. FRC President Jim Daly said the SPLC “always finds a way to hate Christians” and called the designation “potentially violent rhetoric.”

The 2024 hate map listed 96 organizations in the “anti-LGBTQ” category, applied to groups that promote parental rights, religious liberty, and opposition to gender ideology. The SPLC also designated the American College of Pediatricians as a hate group.

Former SPLC Intelligence Report editor-in-chief Mark Potok said in a speech, “I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, to completely destroy them.” Former Intelligence Project director Heidi Beirich said “there is a price to be paid” for organizations she adds to the list.

In May 2025, the SPLC published its annual “Year in Hate and Extremism 2024″ report, which included a section titled “Turning Point USA: A Case Study of the Hard Right in 2024,” placing the organization in its “Dismantling White Supremacy” series. Kirk responded on television, warning the designation would put his organization “in the crosshairs” and citing the FRC shooting as evidence.

He said, “They’re literally putting high school chapters of ours on a hate group list next to the KKK and neo-Nazi groups… Remember that there was a shooter who went to the Family Research Council years ago, inspired by the SPLC list.”

On September 10, 2025, less than four months after the designation, Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, while speaking at a Turning Point USA campus event attended by approximately 3,000 people.

He was struck by a single bullet fired from a rooftop approximately 142 yards away and was pronounced dead at a local hospital. The day before the assassination, the SPLC’s Hatewatch newsletter published an article naming Kirk and Turning Point USA as extremists.

The suspect, Tyler James Robinson, 22, surrendered to authorities on September 11. Prosecutors charged him with aggravated murder and said they would seek the death penalty.

Text messages Robinson allegedly sent to his roommate said he had planned the shooting for just over a week and had “enough of his hatred.” Robinson allegedly told his father he killed Kirk because “there is too much evil and the guy spreads too much hate.” Bullet casings carried inscriptions including “Hey fascist! Catch!”

Utah Governor Spencer Cox stated there was “clearly a leftist ideology” and that Robinson had been radicalized online through “the Reddit culture and these other dark places of the internet.” Investigators did not establish a direct link to the SPLC designation in the charging documents, unlike the FRC case, where Corkins explicitly cited the hate map in his FBI confession.

In December 2025 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, TPUSA Executive Vice President Andrew Sypher said Kirk’s warning had “proved prophetic.”

House Judiciary Subcommittee Chairman Chip Roy stated: “As with FRC, in the aftermath of Charlie’s assassination, there have been no retractions, no accountability, and no acknowledgment of the risks inherent in branding mainstream political figures as existential threats.

These incidents, separated by 13 years but linked by the same targeting architecture, underscore a sobering reality. The SPLC’s designations don’t merely stigmatize. They can serve as ideological permission slips for individuals already willing to commit political violence.”

The SPLC also used its designations to exclude Christian organizations from donor platforms. Amazon’s AmazonSmile program relied on the SPLC to determine charity eligibility, barring designated Christian organizations while groups including Planned Parenthood and the Satanic Temple remained eligible. In 2017, D. James Kennedy Ministries filed a federal lawsuit against the SPLC, Amazon, and GuideStar USA after Amazon denied its AmazonSmile application based on the SPLC designation.

The ministry sued for defamation, religious discrimination, and trademark violation. Ministry president Frank Wright stated: “Those who knowingly label Christian ministries as ‘hate’ groups, solely for subscribing to the historic Christian faith, are either woefully uninformed or willfully deceitful. In the case of the Southern Poverty Law Center, our lawsuit alleges the latter.”

The Eleventh Circuit affirmed dismissal, ruling that “hate group” was too ambiguous a term to be provably false and that the ministry had not adequately alleged actual malice. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case. In 2020, House Judiciary Republicans sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos requesting a briefing on how AmazonSmile made eligibility determinations based on SPLC information.

The SPLC has also filed litigation opposing religious school funding, including a 2025 challenge to Tennessee’s universal voucher law and a motion to intervene against the Wilberforce Academy of Knoxville, a Christian charter school seeking public funds to provide biblical education. Courts ruled the “hate group” label constitutionally protected opinion, a legal shield the indictment now calls into question. An organization facing charges of financial fraud and manufacturing extremism served for years as a primary intelligence source used by federal law enforcement to target Christian organizations.

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