I think it’s important that this bill is a law because an administrative order can be changed just as quickly as a stroke of ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s efforts to bolster the federal death penalty and to encourage the 27 states ...

Jocelyn Samuels was Trump's pick in 2020 to fill a Democratic seat on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She was fired in January, accused of embracing "radical ideology." ...

Though Alabama has stepped up its execution rate in recent months, Hammonds still awaits his date with death and indications are that time may be coming in the not-too-distant future.

A proposal to give prosecutors the option of seeking the death penalty in child rape cases cleared a state House committee in ...

A legal battle over Alabama’s congressional districts begins Monday at Hugo Black Federal Courthouse in Birmingham. If the ...

The Alabama Senate Thursday approved a bill defining “sex-based terms” strictly based on biological sex. SB 79, sponsored by ...

A new bill would punt multiple lawsuits over licenses to the Alabama Supreme Court, expand the number of integrated licenses ...

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The move echoes a decades-old fight over religion in government, reigniting memories of Moore’s defiant stand in the early ...

Several Alabama mothers claimed they were harassed and threatened by Jefferson County judges for bringing breastfeeding ...

The battle over Alabama's congressional map is set to continue as a key redistricting trial, Caster v. Allen, begins Monday.