The resolution was the latest clash between the SPLC and conservative groups over the SPLC's Hatewatch list, which tracks radical and extremist groups.
this past weekend condemning the Southern Poverty Law Center, calling the Montgomery, Alabama, based organization"a far-left organization with an obvious bias."
The SPLC, which conducts investigations and engages in civil rights litigation, said in a statement Sunday that the resolution gave"comfort to hate groups" and accused the RNC of being selective in its condemnation. The resolution was the latest clash between the SPLC and conservative groups over the SPLC's Hatewatch list, which tracks radical and extremist groups. Conservatives accuse the SPLC of pursuing a partisan agenda and sweeping up groups with a conservative agenda with explicitly racist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan.
The RNC resolution cited the presence of the Family Research Council on the list, accusing the SPLC of leading to a 2012 shooting at the FRC.
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