President Barack Obama nominated former Alabama attorney general and current U.S. circuit judge Bill Pryor to be a commissioner on the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the White House announced Monday evening. Pryor, who served as attorney general from 1997 to 2004, serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. President George W. Bush [...]
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is coming to Birmingham tonight for a fundraiser ($1,000 to get in; $25,000 for a private dinner with the candidate). Seems like a good time to peek at presidential fundraising in the state. A look at opensecrets.org shows the Republican with a wide lead over President Barack Obama in statewide fundraising – probably not [...]
President Barack Obama told a Spanish-language newspaper this week that Alabama’s strict new immigration statute is “a bad law” that does not reflect American values. “The idea that we have children afraid to go to school, because they feel afraid that their immigration status will lead to being detained…It’s wrong,” Obama was quoted as saying [...]
Alabama voters are unhappy with President Barack Obama, undecided about the Republican presidential field and pessimistic about the national economy, according to a new survey. The poll, conducted by Capital Survey Research Center, the polling arm of the Alabama Education Association, found Texas Gov. Rick Perry leads the Republican primary field despite 46 percent of [...]
Gov. Robert Bentley joined 27 other Republican governors in sending a letter to President Obama asking him to direct the U.S. Department of Justice to push for an expedited appeals process for the pending lawsuits challenging the healthcare program passed by Congress. They want the decision to reach the U.S. Supreme Court as soon as [...]