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“Whatever Donald Trump is doing in office, in the minds of Latinos it is not working. They have turned against him in massive, massive numbers,” said CNN data chief Harry Enten on Monday.
More than 30 years ago, Barbour confessed to police that he killed a 40-year-old single mother in Montgomery and helped another man rape her. Almost immediately he tried to take back the confession — he said later that he didn’t do it nor even know the woman — but it was too late.
“This crazy tariff war … like, the fact that nobody is questioning his mental acuity or fitness to serve is beyond wild to me, right?" said Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Tex., during a Thursday appearance on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes.”
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The case has been in legal limbo for years as appeals played out in different courts. But in 2020, Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr—who wasn’t in office when Johnson was convicted—voiced his concerns about Johnson’s case and asked for a new trial. That motion for a new trial was pending in Jefferson County while the Supreme Court looked at a previous appeal, but the nation’s highest court declined to review the case in 2023.
Democratic senators sustained a filibuster Thursday that blocked action on about a dozen bills because of opposition to Republican-backed legislation to change who appoints the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Democratic senators sustained a filibuster Thursday that blocked action on about a dozen bills because of opposition to Republican-backed legislation to change who appoints the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
In 2004, Allen introduced legislation to pull books with LGBTQ characters, themes and authors from school libraries, and it was this bill that set the tone for his political career.
Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially "sexually explicit" books to be moved from the children's and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author's last name is Gay.
Four of Alabama’s members of the House of Representatives voted yes to the resolution while three others voted no. Voting yes were Reps. Jerry Carl, R-Mobile, Mike Rogers, R- Saks, Dale Strong, R-Huntsville, and Terri A. Sewell D-Birmingham.