Tag: republicans
Despite Supreme Court Ruling, Alabama Republicans Reject 2nd Majority Black District
By Kim Chandler
Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Republicans, under orders of the U.S. Supreme Court to redraw congressional districts to give minority voters a greater...
Jefferson County (AL) Split Over Whether to Open Courthouses for Sat....
By Barnett Wright
The Birmingham Times
Even though her attempts to open the Jefferson County and Bessemer (AL) Courthouses for Saturday absentee voting were shot down...
Ketanji Brown Jackson Breaks Through A ‘Concrete Ceiling’
By Nyah Marshall
Howard University News Service
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is officially confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court with a historical vote that makes her...
Malveaux: Why won’t Democrats fight?
By Julianne Malveaux
Not a day goes by that I don’t get a text or three from the Democratic National Committee asking for contributions. Sometimes...
First Black Republican Elected to the Alabama Legislature since Reconstruction
By Jay Reeves and Kim Chandler
Associated Press
PELHAM, Ala. (AP) — The first Black Republican elected to the Alabama Legislature since Reconstruction said Wednesday that...
In a first, leading Republicans call Biden president-elect
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, a groundswell of leading Republicans said Monday that Democrat Joe Biden is the winner of the presidential election,...
A Path Forward
It isn’t often that legislators in Montgomery are universally in agreement on anything. But this week it happened, twice.
First, legislators in the State House of...