AG Ellison led a coalition of 15 AGs in urging several large donor-advised fund sponsors to carefully evaluate their decision to stop payments to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) following the Department of Justice’s highly controversial indictment of the SPLC. In their letter to the donor-advised fund sponsors, the coalition warns the institutions of the harm that could result from them helping the Trump administration target nonprofits for simply exercising their First Amendment rights. 

"The Southern Poverty Law Center has been a champion in the fight for civil rights and against violent extremism and hate groups. The Trump administration’s targeting of the SPLC is shameful and clearly motivated by politics, not justice. I’m sending this letter because I cannot sit back and watch as other organizations go along with Trump’s attempts to dismantle this venerable civil rights nonprofit simply because Trump views it as his political enemy." -AG Ellison