When it comes to the U.S. Justice Department’s stunning announcement of criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, as an old saying goes, where you stand depends on where you sit. If you sit with the broad section of Americans who revere the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and who look with distaste on the resurgence of white nationalism in American politics, it may come as no surprise that President Donald Trump’s DOJ is going after an organization with a long history of standing up to organized racism. If you sit with the Trump administration’s Justice Department, you may regard this latest example of prosecutorial “lawfare” as another opportunity to confuse the public while destroying an institution you regard as a political enemy. Most of us, me very much included, likely find the details of the indictment murky.…