Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is praising Kash Patel’s FBI for doing the right thing and cutting ties with the Alabama based Southern Policy Law Center (SPLC).

Patel announced Friday that the FBI has officially ended its relationship with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) based in Montgomery, calling them an organization that “abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine.”

“The SPLC has a troubling history of pushing false accusations and labeling political opponents as ‘hate groups.’ Law enforcement should never have partnered with them,” Marshal said on X “Thank you, [FBI Director Kash Patel], for taking this bold and necessary step!”

Marshall, who is also a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2026, also discussed the issue Friday on “Rightside Radio with Phil Williams.”

“I think it’s an amen, right?” Marshall quipped. “The SPLC is no friend to the state of Alabama, and clearly not a friend to conservative causes.”

SPLC was focal point of controversy last year as well after it was revealed that the organization is doxing at least fourteen ‘Not the Bee’ writers in an expected ‘hit piece’ as part of a ‘Data Lab investigation.’ The group also claimed TPUSA was a hate group.

“I was a little bit surprised to see, actually, Director Patel’s order. I didn’t know there was really any nexus that was involved between the FBI and them,” Marshall continued. “The only thing I ever saw historically was some discussion around sovereign citizens and what the SPLC was doing there. But beyond that, I had no idea that there was ever any connection.”

The announcement from the FBI terminating their connection to SPLC came just days after Patel said they also ended their relationship with Anti-Defamation League for its left-wing bias.

“And so I was very pleased to see that action by the Secretary, and particularly in light of what you and I both have seen for years, where because of woke policies, the efforts around ESG, you had companies relying upon SPLC classifications of individuals or groups, and not only determine whether or not charitable donations keep coming to them, but also how they were viewed in the eyes of other people,” Marshall argued. “It is refreshing to see this administration push back on their organization.”

Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee