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Alabama receives low rating in Human Rights Campaign’s State Equality Index

Alabama was placed in the lowest-rated category for the fifth year in a row in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and Equality Federation Institute’s fifth annual State Equality Index. The SEI is a comprehensive report that details statewide laws and policies that affect LGBTQ people and their families and assesses how well states are protecting … Continued
February 1, 2019

House of Representatives passes measure to reverse federal employee salary freeze

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday giving federal workers a 2.6 percent pay increase, nullifying President Donald Trump’s administration’s December 2018 decision to freeze federal employee salary rates. This pay increase will put executive branch employees at an equal level with military members in terms of pay raises. The measure reverses … Continued
January 31, 2019

Jones sponsors bipartisan bill supporting teacher leaders

U.S. Sen. Doug Jones, D-Alabama, sponsored a bipartisan effort to support innovative teacher leadership roles called the Teachers are Leaders Act. Jones introduced this legislation alongside Sen. Chris Coons, D-Deleware; Joni Ernst, R-Iowa; Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa; Cory Gardner, R-Colorado; Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut; Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island; Pat Roberts, R-Kansas; Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, and Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island. … Continued
January 30, 2019
Facade of US Supreme court in Washington DC on sunny day

Supreme Court allows Trump administration’s transgender military ban

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court made a dramatic decision to temporarily allow the Trump administration’s ban on transgender military members as legal battles over the issue continue in lower courts. The court stuck to partisan lines in a 5-to-4 vote to lift two injunctions blocking the policy. The court’s five Republican-appointed justices were in … Continued
January 25, 2019