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Fate of Alabama Anti-Immigration Law Likely Decided by Supreme Court in Arizona v. United States

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On April 25th, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Arizona v. United States.  Like in Alabama the Obama Administration has sued the state of Arizona over the legality of the immigration law.  Where Alabama’s immigration law is HB 56, their law is known as “SB 1070.” The … Continued
April 5, 2012

Sessions Says Protecting Obamacare is Why Democrats in Senate Won’t Pass a Budget

By Brandon MoseleyAlabama Political Reporter  Thursday Senator Jeff Sessions (R) from Alabama suggested that the Democratic leadership of the Senate were refusing to pass a budget because they were protecting the President’s highly controversial healthcare plan, which gradually seizes control of a sixth of the American economy.  Sen. Sessions said that if the Majority Leader … Continued
April 2, 2012

BACHUS ISSUES STATEMENT ON SUPREME COURT HEARING ON OBAMACARE

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Congressman Spencer Bachus (R) from Vestavia issued a written statement after oral arguments concluded at the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (better known as Obamacare). Rep. Bachus said, “My view from inside the legislative process was always that Obamacare represented … Continued
March 29, 2012

Luther Strange Comments on Obamacare Suit Before the U.S. Supreme Court

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange and 25 other states’ attorneys general, the National Federation of Independent Business plus four individual plaintiffs have spent Monday and Tuesday making oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court in their suit against the Barack H. Obama Administration’s radical health care plan, the … Continued
March 28, 2012

Representatives Love and McClurkin Introduce Bill to Save PACT Settlement

By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Alabama House of Representatives Members Jay Love (R) from Montgomery and Mary Sue McClurkin (R) from Indian Springs have introduced a House Bill that would attempt to change Alabama law so that the PACT class action settlement can by reinstated.  The Alabama Supreme Court has recently overturned the settlement … Continued
March 27, 2012

Roy Moore Running For Chief Justice

By Brandon MoseleyAlabama Political Reporter  Former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Roy Moore is seeking to become Alabama’s Chief Justice again.  Thursday, Alabama’s most famous living jurist agreed to an exclusive phone interview with ‘The Alabama Political Reporter.’ In addition to being a sitting jurist on the Alabama Supreme Court the elected Alabama … Continued
March 2, 2012

Alabama Forestry Association Endorses Graddick

By Brandon MoseleyAlabama Political Reporter  ForestPAC, the Political Action Committee of the Alabama Forestry Association is endorsing Mobile Judge Charlie Graddick for Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court over incumbent Chuck Malone and former Chief Justice Roy Moore. Graddick is the presiding judge in Mobile County Court. In the endorsement they said, “Graddick, a … Continued
February 22, 2012

Congressman Bachus Says Supreme Court Should Declare Obamacare Unconstitutional

By Brandon MoseleyAlabama Political Reporter Congressman Spencer Bachus(R) from Vestavia  issued a press release announcing that he and over a hundred other members of Congress had signed on in support of a brief to the United States Supreme Court asking the Court to declare the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly referred … Continued
January 10, 2012

Dues Check-off Lawsuit: AEA Says It Doesn’t Contribute to Campaigns, But Are Those the Facts?

By Grant Hallmark Alabama Political Reporter “They say they do not use collected funds to influence elections,” Derek Trotter, spokesperson for President Pro Tempore Del Marsh said of the Alabama Educators Association (AEA). “They have a Super PAC that spent $10 million in the 2010 election cycle,” Trotter continued, they are certainly influencing elections. During … Continued
January 9, 2012

Election Versus Appointment of Judges

By Bill Britt Alabama Political Reporter In the United States, supreme court judges are appointed by the president with the advise and consent of the Senate.  Among the 50 states, supreme court justices, appellate and other judgeships are elected, appointed or a combination of diverse methods. There is an on-going debate as to which method, … Continued
December 21, 2011