league of the south

October 11, 2018 - The same secret-money group that pushed the U.S Senate to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh is dominating spending in judicial elections in Arkansas and elsewhere in the South. In some states, justices are looking to be re-elected with the help of campaign cash from corporations and law firms that have business before the courts.

October 19, 2015 - A protest held last week at Ole Miss calling for the removal of the state flag with its Confederate emblem was crashed by a group of Southern secessionists. In recent decades the school has struggled to divest itself of Confederate symbolism, drawing intense protests.

June 24, 2015 - Earl Holt, president of the white-supremacist group cited as an influence by Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, has spent $65,000 backing Republican politicians — but he's not the only white-supremacist leader to support conservative politicians.