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Biden removes Lee Greenwood from National Endowment for the Arts

“I didn’t get a phone call or letter. It was just an email,” Lee Greenwood said.
September 24, 2021

Condoleezza Rice visited the state

Dr. Condoleezza Rice visited Alabama last week as part of the state’s Bicentennial events on December 13 and 14 in Montgomery. Dr. Rice also was a guest of the Westminster Presbyterian Church USA and the Alabama School of Fine Arts at the Dorothy Jemison Day Theater in Birmingham on December 12. Dr. Rice served as … Continued
December 20, 2019

Jones votes to confirm Trump Secretary of Defense Mark Esper

Tuesday, U.S. Senator Doug Jones, D-Alabama, voted in favor of the confirmation of Mark Esper’s to be the next Secretary of Defense. “Dr. Esper is well qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense by virtue of his experience serving in the Army, his numerous positions as a Congressional staffer in both the House and Senate, … Continued
July 25, 2019

President George H.W. Bush dies at 94

U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush (R) passed away late Friday night. Bush was the 41st president of the United States and served from 1989 to 1993. Prior to his service as President, he was elected Vice President in 1980 and 1984, serving with President Ronald W. Reagan (R). The twelve consecutive years of Republican … Continued
December 1, 2018

Today is 9/11

Today is the 17th anniversary of 9-11. On that day in 2001, terrorists who were members of the terrorist group, Al Qaeda, under orders from Osama Bin Laden, seized four American airliners filled with passengers by force and flew three of them into the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York City … Continued
September 11, 2018

There is growing pressure on Sen. Doug Jones over Kavanaugh confirmation

On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) met with President Donald J. Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and expressed his strong support. Most observers already expected that Shelby will vote to confirm Kavanaugh; but no one knows with certainty how Alabama’s other Senator Doug Jones (D) will vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Jones recently told … Continued
August 3, 2018

Trump appoints Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court

Tuesday, July 9 President Donald J. Trump (R) appointed Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. Kavanaugh sits on the DC Circuit Court. That is the main federal appeals court and has often been a stepping stone to the Supreme Court as it hears some of the most prominent cases, … Continued
July 10, 2018

What to expect during Kavanaugh’s confirmation battle

It’s official: President Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Kavanaugh has served on the D.C. Circuit since 2006. A graduate of Yale and Yale Law, he clerked for the man he’s been chosen to replace, and for legal legend Alex Kozinski. He … Continued
July 10, 2018