Edited sentence: In 2018 the SPLC settled for 3.375 million, with Maajid Nawaz and his organization, the Quilliam Foundation, for wrongly including them in their publication A Journalist’s Manual: Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists.In January 2019 the Center for Immigration studies filed  civil RICO suit against the President of SPLC, Richard Cohen and February of 2019 Gavin McInnes filed suit against the SPLC for defamation.The SPLC has used Trump as an image of bigotry on direct mailers in their attempts to raise money further fueling the accusations of a left wing bias