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Controversial Amendment 2 narrowly rejected by voters

Tuesday’s vote by the people leaves the judicial portion of the Constitution like it is now.
November 7, 2020

Auburn Student Center named for Harold Melton, first Auburn SGA president of color

The year 1987 was a quiet one for elections across America but not at Auburn. That was the year Harold Melton, a student in international studies and Spanish, launched and won a campaign to become the first African American president of the Auburn Student Government Association, winning with more than 65 percent of the vote. … Continued
September 11, 2020

Moore: “Economy is destroyed” by “tyrants who pander fear in the place of faith”

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued a statewide order that all restaurants close dine-in services. Bars have been closed across the state and nursing homes across the country are not allowing visitors. Infectious disease experts recommend that meetings of more than ten people be abolished to fight the spread of the coronavirus. This means that sports … Continued
March 20, 2020

Top Ten Alabama political stories of the decade: Part One

Part One of Two. On Wednesday, the 2020s begin. Now is a good time to look back on the top ten Alabama political stories of the decade that ends tomorrow at midnight and the headlines that dominated the second decade of the twenty first century. The Rise of the Alabama Republican Party. In 2010, the … Continued
December 29, 2019

Brooks urges Senate to use federal rules of evidence in Trump’s impeachment trial

Thursday, Congressman Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) and 8 conservative House colleagues sent a letter to United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urging them to adopt the Federal Rules of Evidence for the Senate’s President Trump impeachment trial. The other Republican congressmen who joined … Continued
December 25, 2019

Moore: Democrats will do “anything and everything” to stop Trump

Friday, U.S. Senate candidate former Chief Justice Roy Moore (R) condemned efforts to impeach President Donald J. Trump (R) and said that the desire by Democrats to remove Trump is why he was targeted in the 2017 election in favor of Doug Jones (D), whom Moore predicted will vote to convict Pres. Trump. “The impeachment … Continued
December 18, 2019

Moore sues Democratic PACs for their role in the 2017 election

Former chief justice and current Senate candidate Roy Moore filed suit against two Democratic PACs, their vendors, and the chairman of one of the PACs for defamation, defamation by implication, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and collaborating to create an elaborate disinformation campaign against him in the 2017 special election for U.S. Senate. In … Continued
November 18, 2019