The DOJ was created in 1870 during Reconstruction to enforce newly won civil rights against white supremacist violence:

The SPLC later became one of the most recognizable organizations in America for exposing and dismantling Klan and white supremacist networks.

But it does create a historical inversion worth looking at:

what does it mean when a department born in that struggle turns its power on an organization publicly identified with continuing it?

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The DOJ was created in 1870 during Reconstruction to enforce newly won civil rights against white supremacist violence:
[https://www.justice.gov/history/timeline/150-years-department-justice](https://www.justice.gov/history/timeline/150-years-department-justice)

A year later came the Ku Klux Klan Act.

The SPLC later became one of the most recognizable organizations in America for exposing and dismantling Klan and white supremacist networks.

Now DOJ is prosecuting SPLC.

(Indictment context here:)
https://stacker.news/items/1476224/r/Yermin

That doesn’t settle the case.

But it does create a historical inversion worth looking at:

**what does it mean when a department born in that struggle turns its power on an organization publicly identified with continuing it?**