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Despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s order to redraw congressional districts to give minority voters a larger say in elections, Alabama Republicans rejected motions to craft a second majority-black district and instead proposed a map testing the justices’ ruling. The group met on Monday to redraw Alabama’s existing map, which the Supreme Court deemed a violation of the Voting Rights Act in June. The lawmakers needed to complete the redistricting by Friday, per the decision last month. In 2022, a lower court panel ruled that Alabama should have another majority-black congressional district in the s...
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A local Alabama Republican organization is facing backlash after a country chairman published a Facebook post with a GOP elephant with silhouettes resembling hooded KKK members. Shannon Terry, the Lawrence County Republican Party’s chairman, apologized and took “full responsibility” for the incident. Terry stated that he found the image from a quick Google search. The club’s logo closely resembled the altered image, causing Terry to turn a blind eye to the image’s darker message. “I would like to offer a deep and sincere apology for a picture that temporarily appeared on this page last night,”...
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Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks (R) said Wednesday that former President Donald Trump asked him to go along with a plan to unlawfully remove President Joe Biden from office so Trump could regain the White House. Brooks says he repeatedly declined. “Mo Brooks of Alabama made a horrible mistake recently when he went ‘woke’ and stated, referring to the 2020 Presidential Election Scam, ‘Put that behind you, put that behind you,'” Trump said in a statement announcing the his rescinding of his endorsement of Brooks for the U.S. Senate on Wednesday. Trump blamed Brooks’ campaign staff for urging him to stop t...
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Alabama will no longer require a background check or permits to allow residents to conceal and carry handguns. Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed the bill into law on Thursday, and it will go into effect next January. “Unlike states who are doing everything in their power to make it harder for law-abiding citizens, Alabama is reaffirming our commitment to defending our Second Amendment rights,” Ivey said in a statement. “I have always stood up for the rights of law-abiding gun owners, and I am proud to do that again today.” The state House of Representatives voted in favor of the bill 70-29. The ...
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The Supreme Court blocked a lower court’s ruling 5-4 that would have forced Alabama to draw a new congressional map to create two districts likely to elect black House members. The federal court said that the map violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. They agreed that one black-majority district did not allow minority citizens the same opportunity to vote, even though the Alabama population is more than one-fourth black. Justice Brett Kavanaugh referenced previous instances where the court declined to change rules close to an election. Primary elections begin on May 24, but absentee bal...
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A federal court ruled that Alabama’s new congressional map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The three-judge panel agreed that black citizens did not have the same opportunity to vote in who they wanted to Congress and that the state should draw a second majority-black district. The Legislature has 14 days to redraw the districts. “The Legislature enjoys broad discretion and may consider a wide range of remedial plans,” the ruling said. “As the Legislature considers such plans, it should be mindful of the practical reality, based on the ample evidence of intensely racially polarized...
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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R-Alabama) responded to criticism of her choice to use federal COVID-19 relief funds to build new prisons. In a letter, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-New York) wrote to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen about the issue. “Directing funding meant to protect our citizens from a pandemic to fuel mass incarceration is, in direct contravention of the intended purposes of the ARP legislation and will particularly harm communities of color who are already disproportionately impacted by our over-incarceration and this public health crisis,” Nadler said. Ivey responded to Nadler on Twitter: ...
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Hunter Pepper, who became the youngest councilmember to be ever elected in the Decatur City, Alabama, said he is now suffering from COVID-19 pneumonia. “Confirming last night after a ‘CT-Scan’ I am now shown to have ‘Covid Pneumonia’ which is absolutely terrible,” Pepper said Thursday on Facebook, which he took down the next day. Pepper’s post came just a day after he announced he was diagnosed with COVID-19. He had previously been outspoken in his opposition to mask mandates. “Unfortunately, this morning I have confirmed two positive test for COVID-19,” Pepper wrote on Facebook Wednesday, jus...
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For the first time in its history, Alabama recorded more deaths than births in 2020 due to COVID-19. On Friday, Dr. Scott Harris, the state’s top health official, told reporters at a press conference in Montgomery that the state had “shrunk” last year for the first time. “2020 is going to be the first year that we know of in the history of our state where we actually had more deaths than births,” Harris said. “Our state literally shrunk in 2020, based on the numbers that we have managed to put together, and actually by quite a bit.” Alabama recorded 64,714 total deaths in 2020. The number is s...
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On Saturday, former President Donald Trump was giving a speech in an Alabama rally when he was met with boos after asking his supporters to get vaccinated. “And you know what? I believe totally in your freedoms. I do. You’ve got to do what you have to do,” Trump said during his remarks. “But, I recommend: take the vaccines. I did it. It’s good. Take the vaccines.” The crowd replied with boos. Trump immediately refrained from urging them again and continued by saying it’s still their “freedom.” “No, that’s okay. That’s all right. You got your freedoms,” Trump said, echoing rhetoric from opponen...
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