The Jewish extremist Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) hate group has been given the boot from all formal partner programs with the US Government, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced.

Speaking before the Alliance Defending Freedom’s annual Summit on Religious Liberty, Sessions announced that the Justice Department would not partner with groups that discriminate against or defame others, singling out the Southern Poverty Law Center for its “hate group” campaign.

Sessions accused the SPLC of wielding the “hate” designation as a “weapon . . . against conservative organizations that refuse to accept their orthodoxy and choose instead to speak their conscience.”

“I have ordered a review at the Department of Justice to make sure that we do not partner with any groups that discriminate,” Sessions said.

“We will not partner with groups that unfairly defame Americans for standing up for the Constitution or their faith.”

Nor will the department associate with “hate groups,” he said, insisting, “At the Justice Department, we will not partner with hate groups. Not on my watch.”

The SPLC, under its president, Richard Cohen, has, along with the Jewish extremist hate group the ADL, been one of the fiercest critics of the Trump administration, and used Trump’s face on the front page of one of its “Year in Hate” review.

SPLC board members contributed thousands of dollars to Clinton’s presidential campaign, and has continued to wage war against Trump, falsely accusing him of being responsible for an alleged increase in anti-Semitism and racism (an “upsurge” that was later revealed to have been caused by a Jew in Israel).

“They [SPLC] use it to bully and intimidate groups like yours which fight for the religious freedom, the civil rights, and constitutional rights of others,” Sessions told the Alliance Defending Freedom.

Among the groups listed by the SPLC is the ADF, a Christian legal foundation that specializes in religious-liberty cases.

“You and I may not agree on everything, but I wanted to come back here tonight partly because I wanted to say this: You are not a hate group,” Mr. Sessions told the ADF.

The move to boot the SPLC will affect the FBI in particular, which currently “partners” with the SPLC on “hate crimes.”

In April 2014, it was falsely reported that the FBI had cut its relationship with the SPLC, but that was a rumor started by right wing bloggers.