Posted originally on CTH on June 9, 2026 | Sundance

The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing today on the topic of the Southern Poverty Law Center, operating a program to fund, organize and stimulate racist activity, just so the SPLC could fight against racism and fundraise over it.

Amid the panel of voices presented to discuss the issue is the familiar Lawfare operative, Mary McCord.  It makes sense for McCord to get invited by the HJC because McCord was lead staff for the HJC (Nadler/Schiff) during the impeachment effort.  The relationship between Mary McCord and the HJC is lengthy.

McCord noted that law enforcement agencies routinely pay for operatives to infiltrate organizations in order to target them, so congress should not be too concerned with the SPLC funding white racists for the same purpose.  What McCord carefully avoided, was noting how the SPLC is neither a law enforcement entity nor an investigative agency of the government.

I have not had time to watch the entire hearing, and I will provide more depth of review over the next few days once I have watched all of the discussion.  In the interim, these hearings are usually ‘chaff and countermeasures.’