FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Todd McMurtry, the lawyer who secured settlements from CNN, NBC Universal, and The Washington Post on behalf of Covington Catholic High School teen Nick Sandmann, has joined the legal team for D.A. King and the Dustin Inman Society, who are suing the Southern Poverty Law Center for defamation.

"We're proud of the willingness of both Liberty Counsel and Todd McMurtry in agreeing to represent us in defense of our good name and reputation from the ridiculous charges of the hatemongering Southern Poverty Law Center," King, an anti-illegal immigration activist whose organization the SPLC branded an "anti-immigrant hate group," told The Daily Signal in a phone interview Monday. "We're also proud of Mr. McMurtry's experience and success in defamation law."