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Judge dismisses Mo Brooks from federal lawsuit over Jan. 6 Capitol attack

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta on Wednesday ruled that Brook's speech outside the U.S. Capitol prior to the attack was protected by the First Amendment.

March 10, 2022

Manslaughter charges dropped for former Alabama correctional officer, prisoner

Billy Smith died in 2017 after being beaten at Elmore Correctional Facility. The state charged both a prisoner and a guard for the death.

September 10, 2021

Judge dismisses suit filed by family of mentally ill man shot and killed by police

Brad McBrayer has spent the last five years thinking about the moments before a police officer shot and killed his son. Body camera footage, taken on Nov. 11, 2014, does not show all of those moments. The officers turned on their cameras only after things had escalated. In the footage, 24-year-old David Daniel McBrayer seemed … Continued

June 28, 2019

Claims of selective prosecution, a new attorney roil case against former Trump EPA administrator

A series of defense motions filed in Jefferson County court early this morning ask that charges against Scott Phillips and Onis “Trey” Glenn III be dismissed. Glenn, until his indictment in November, served as President Donald Trump’s Southeast EPA administrator. Phillips is a former Alabama Environmental Management commissioner. Both men, according to a statement from … Continued

February 11, 2019

Macon judge dismisses state lawsuit against VictoryLand

A Macon County Circuit Court judge dismissed a state lawsuit against VictoryLand casino on Wednesday after the Attorney General’s Office failed to file timely responses in the case. The parties in the lawsuit were in Circuit Court Judge Steve Perryman’s courtroom to take up several motions, including a motion to dismiss the nuisance lawsuit filed … Continued

January 10, 2019

Rep. Randy Davis claims prosecutor misconduct, seeks dismissal of charges

State Rep. Randy Davis, a Republican from Daphne, and former state Republican Party Chairman Marty Connors are seeking to have their indictments dismissed by the federal courts on claims that prosecutors engaged in misconduct during the grand jury hearings. Davis and Connors were indicted on federal bribery charges in July. In a filing Tuesday, Davis’ … Continued

September 26, 2018

AG Marshall doesn’t need evidence, testimony to back Kavanaugh

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall supports Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. Marshall issued a statement on Tuesday (first reported by the Montgomery Advertiser) that says exactly that. He called the allegations against Kavanaugh “partisan politics.” Let’s think about that a moment. The attorney general for this state, without the benefit of hearing … Continued

September 26, 2018

ASU can finally see the light

Here’s something that hasn’t been said much the last few years: Things are going pretty well at Alabama State University. The troubled historically black university has experienced a solid run of decent news of late. Nothing earth shattering. Not setting the world on fire. Just solid, move-things-forward news that reflects positively on one of the … Continued

May 4, 2018

Judge dismisses three from Pouncey lawsuit

By Josh Moon Alabama Political Reporter A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge has dismissed two Department of Education attorneys and the former interim state schools superintendent from a lawsuit filed last year by Jefferson County superintendent Craig Pouncey alleging a conspiracy to deny him the superintendent’s job. Judge Roman Shaul, in a two-page order, released … Continued

February 1, 2018