Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said the House judiciary committee issued a new subpoena as part of an investigation into the use of confidential sources around the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, raising questions about whether any were paid by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“Were any of the guys they were paying — was the Biden Justice Department paying these same guys? Confidential human sources. We know 26 confidential human sources were at the Capitol on Jan. 6,” Jordan said to Fox News’s America’s Newsroom co-host Bill Hemmer on Thursday.
Jordan said that lawmakers are trying to determine whether taxpayer-funded “confidential human sources” were properly used and whether federal agencies inappropriately coordinated payments across organizations.
“Four went in the Capitol; they weren’t authorized to do so. I want to know if any of these guys were double-dipping and taking money from the government and from the Southern Poverty Law Center. That’s one of the things we want to find out,” Jordan said.
JUST IN: Rep. Jim Jordan announces the “human sources” who infiltrated January 6th might’ve been PAID BY THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER
This is insane. Expose it all and make arrests!
REP. JIM JORDAN: “Were any of the guys they were paying, was the Biden Justice Department… pic.twitter.com/JvV7nR6qTv
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 21, 2026
Founded in 1971, the SPLC is a nonprofit organization based in Montgomery, Alabama, whose mission, according to its website, is to change the trajectory of racial injustice and fight white supremacy.
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According to a press release from the Justice Department last month, the SPLC between 2014 and 2023 allegedly secretly funneled more than $3 million in donations to individuals connected to extremist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and the National Socialist Party of America.
SPLC is facing an 11-count indictment on charges of wire fraud, false statements to federally insured banks, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
