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Trump signs memo aimed at omitting undocumented immigrants from apportionment

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a memorandum that would bar undocumented people from being counted in the 2020 census for purposes of Congressional apportionment, a move that almost certainly will be challenged in court, as was his U.S. Supreme Court-blocked attempt to add a citizenship question to this year’s census. “I have accordingly determined … Continued

July 21, 2020

Jones asks president to appoint members to empty civil rights cold case board

U.S. Senator Doug Jones, D-Alabama, on Friday asked President Donald Trump to appoint members to a board meant to review and make public civil rights cold case files. Jones and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, drafted the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018, which Trump signed into law January 2019, but since then … Continued

June 12, 2020

Trump to order meat-processing plants to remain open

President Donald Trump plans to use the Defense Production Act to force meat-processing plants to continue to operate amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to several news accounts. That doesn’t sit well with unions that represent the workers who have been contracting and dying from the deadly virus. “We only wish that this administration cared as … Continued

April 28, 2020

Jones asks for more aid to cattlemen, dairy producers and farmers amid COVID-19

U.S. Senator Doug Jones, D-Alabama, and a bipartisan group of senators asked President Donald Trump to do away with limits on financial aid for livestock, dairy and specialty crop producers hit hard by the COVID-19 crisis. Jones and the other senators in a letter to Trump wrote that caps in the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program … Continued

April 24, 2020

U.S. government report predicts 18 months of COVID-19 outbreak in America

A recent report by the federal government, backed by another in the UK, estimates the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. “will last 18 months or longer and could include multiple waves of illness.” The 100-page unclassified COVID-19 response plan drafted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and obtained by The New York … Continued

March 20, 2020

Trump suspends travel to U.S. form Europe, coronavirus declared pandemic

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was suspending all travel to the U.S. from Europe for the next 30 days in an effort to prevent wider spread of coronavirus. Trump, speaking from the Oval Office, said travel from the UK would not be suspended. The travel ban will go into effect Friday at midnight. … Continued

March 12, 2020

Secretary of State Merrill to attend signing of USMCA at White House

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill was to attend the singing of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement at the White House on Wednesday, his office announced. “In 2017, Alabama companies exported nearly $22 billion in goods, which supports 500,000 jobs in the state, and in 2015, over 4,000 companies exported goods from The Yellowhammer State – … Continued

January 29, 2020

What does the presidential race look like nationally?

Our presidential primary in the Heart of Dixie is less than two months away. We vote on March 3, 2020. President Donald Trump will be the GOP nominee. It is a foregone conclusion that Trump will carry Alabama in the November General Election. One of the most intriguing revelations will be which Democratic presidential candidate … Continued

January 8, 2020

Alabama U.S. Senate candidates look to Trump, what can be learned from recent Deep South elections?

Moderate Democrat gubernatorial candidates in Kentucky and Louisiana beat back firebrand Republicans who nationalized their state’s elections by tying their political fortunes to President Donald Trump. Here in Alabama, most of the Republicans running for the U.S. Senate are following a similar playbook linking their campaigns to the popular president, but is it enough? In … Continued

November 18, 2019

Is Alabama’s playbook bipartisan? No, but it could be

Gov. Kay Ivey, in a press statement condemning the impeachment inquiry aimed at President Donald Trump, followed the script being used by most Republicans. But in the governor’s statement, she added a decidedly Ivey-twist saying Washington D.C. should take a page from Alabama’s playbook. “I say Congress should take a page out of our book … Continued

October 30, 2019