Tag Archives: Alabama

Alabama GOP State Rep Arrested For Voter Fraud

Huntsville’s CBS affiliate reports: Madison-area State Representative David Cole was arrested Tuesday afternoon and charged with voter fraud, according to Madison County jail records. Cole, a Republican, won 52% of the vote in the House District 10 race in November 2022. But Elijah Boyd, the Libertarian candidate who finished third in the race filed a lawsuit on Nov. 22 alleging …

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Alabama Seeks To Execute Man Via “Nitrogen Hypoxia”

The Associated Press reports: Alabama is seeking to become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen. The Alabama attorney general’s office on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to set an execution date for death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58. The court filing indicated Alabama plans to put him to death by nitrogen …

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Alabama Sued Over Out-Of-State Abortion Advice Ban

The Birmingham News reports: Two clinic owners in Alabama and the ACLU filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to prevent prosecutions of people who provide information or assistance to women who want to travel out of state to get abortions. Alabama law prohibits doctors and others from performing abortions. The two plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Dr. Yashica Robinson and Robin Marty, …

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Alabama Gov Signs House Map In Defiance Of SCOTUS

Reuters reports: Alabama’s Republican-controlled legislature on Friday passed a new congressional map that increased the number of Black voters in one of the state’s districts, but Democrats said the plan defied a U.S. Supreme Court ruling intended to protect minority voters’ rights. Civil rights groups have already vowed to challenge the new map in court, a month after the Supreme …

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Supreme Court Declines To Halt Execution By Alabama

The Birmingham News reports: Alabama has executed James Barber for the 2001 beating death of a 75-year-old Madison County woman. The execution early Friday morning at Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore came after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by Barber, 64, to stop the lethal injection execution because he claimed the previous two attempts on other inmates in …

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AL Anti-Abortion Leader Arrested On Child Sex Charges

The Birmingham News reports: A government relations employee with the Alabama Department of Education has been charged with sexual abuse of a child less than 12, according to court records. Cole Wagner, 32, of Montgomery, was arrested Wednesday on the charge. He was arrested by the Montgomery County sheriff’s department, according to the warrant. His bond was set at $60,000. …

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Alabama Defies SCOTUS With Redrawn US House Map

The Washington Post reports: The Republican-led House in Alabama approved a new congressional map Wednesday that would increase the percentage of Black voters in its 2nd District — but not by enough, Democrats argued, to comply with a federal court order. The legislature is in special session this week following a Supreme Court opinion in June that found lawmakers previously …

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AL Gov Calls Special Session To Redraw US House Map

The Birmingham Herald reports: Gov. Kay Ivey has called a special session of the Legislature to redraw Alabama’s congressional district map. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 8 that the current map, with one majority Black district out of seven, likely violates the Voting Rights Act. A three-judge federal court has given the state until July 21 to draw …

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SCOTUS Strikes Down Alabama’s Racist House Map

The Guardian reports: Alabama discriminated against Black voters when it drew its seven congressional districts last year, the Supreme Court has ruled, a decision that is a major victory for the Voting Rights Act. The decision in the case, Allen v Milligan, means that Alabama will have to draw its congressional map to include a second majority-Black district. Black voters …

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White Supremacists Hack Alabama Interstate Sign

The Birmingham News reports: Multiple motorists traveling on Interstate 65 on Monday near Clanton reported Alabama Department of Transportation signs displaying messages for a group identified as a white supremacist organization. Images on social media showed large digital traffic signs displaying the words “Patriot Front” and “reclaim America.” The SPLC identifies Patriot Front, based in Texas, as a “white nationalist …

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AL Venue Cancels Ted Nugent Concert After Backlash

The Birmingham News reports: Ted Nugent’s concert in Birmingham has been canceled amid a wave of controversy on social media. Nugent, 74, a hard rock veteran and political provocateur, was set to play on July 18 at Avondale Brewing Co. His appearance here, which was announced on Monday by promoter Red Mountain Entertainment, inspired intense reactions this week among concertgoers, …

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Alabama GOP Bill Would Outlaw Drag Shows In Public

The Associated Press reports: Alabama has joined states trying to limit drag shows after legislation was filed Thursday that would prohibit the performances in public places where children are present. The bill by Republican Rep. Arnold Mooney would add a provision to the state’s anti-obscenity laws to prohibit “male or female impersonators, commonly known as drag queens or drag kings” …

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AL Gov Ousts Top Official Over “Woke” Pre-K Book

The Alabama Political Reporter reports: Dr. Barbara Cooper, secretary of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education, has resigned under pressure from Gov. Kay Ivey [photo] for the inclusion of a “woke” pre-K educator resource book in the state’s curriculum. Ivey’s office said it was brought to Ivey’s attention last week that the book included content “that is simply not …

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Pro-KKK Former GOP Rep/Pastor Guilty Of Felony Theft

The Montgomery Advertiser reports: Former state Rep. William “Will” N. Dismukes III has been convicted of one count of theft of property and could face “significant” prison time, Montgomery District Attorney Daryl Bailey said. Dismukes, a Republican, represented Prattville and portions of Autauga and Elmore counties in the Statehouse for one term but lost his bid for re-election last year. …

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SCOTUS Rejects Free Speech Claim By Street Preacher

Reuters reports: The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a traveling Christian evangelist’s free-speech challenge to a University of Alabama requirement that he obtain a permit before handing out religious pamphlets and preaching from a sidewalk adjacent to its campus. The justices turned away an appeal by preacher Rodney Keister of a lower court’s ruling rejecting his claim that the …

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Christian School Teacher Arrested On Child Sex Charges

Mobile’s NBC affiliate reports: According to the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, a local teacher has been arrested and charged for engaging in a sexual relationship with a student. Jonathan Sauers, a teacher and soccer coach at Faith Academy, has been charged with “School employee engaging in a sex act with a student under the age of 19 years.” According to …

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Highest Murder Rates From 2000-2020: Red States

Axios reports: The murder rates in Trump-voting states from 2020 have exceeded those in Biden-voting states every year since 2000, according to a new analysis by ThirdWay. Republicans have built their party on being the crime-fighting candidates, even as murder rates in red states have outpaced blue states by an average of 23% over the past two decades. Four reliably-red …

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Alabama Youth Pastor Arrested On Child Porn Charges

The Birmingham News reports: A Pelham middle school teacher and wrestling coach who also doubled as the youth director of a McCalla church was arrested and jailed Wednesday on child porn charges. Adam Jeremy Lewis, an eighth grade teacher at Pelham Park Middle School and an assistant coach for the school’s wrestling team, was charged with possessing child pornography. He …

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Alabama And Mississippi Celebrate Robert E. Lee Day

Axios reports: Alabama and Mississippi celebrate MLK and Robert E. Lee, the losing Confederate general and slaveholder, on the same day. Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas all have at least one day commemorating the Confederacy on other days of the year, the Axios analysis found. Mississippi and Alabama each celebrate a total of three …

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Alabama AG Says He Will Prosecute Women For Using Abortion Pills Under Law About Fumes From Meth Labs

The Birmingham News reports: One week after the federal government made it easier to get abortion pills, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said Tuesday that women in Alabama who use those pills to end pregnancies could be prosecuted. That’s despite wording in Alabama’s new Human Life Protection Act that criminalizes abortion providers and prevents its use against the people receiving …

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