Vice President Joe Biden will be in Selma next Sunday to participate in the annual event to commemorate Bloody Sunday, when state troopers and local law enforcement beat back civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965. Biden, according to the White House and state Sen. Hank Sanders of Selma, will [...]
In unveiling their 2013 legislative agenda on Thursday, House Republican leaders were as focused on Washington as they were on Alabama as they talked about firearms, abortion, taxes and regulations. The legislative list unveiled by leaders at a press conference included proposals to strengthen gun rights in the state Constitution, introduce new abortion clinic regulations [...]
The U.S. Senate is considered the most exclusive club in the world, but one of the 100 members said Wednesday he worries about contentious issues being discussed in private meetings between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, giving members little input and little time to look at the result. U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, [...]
Before Karl Rove helped work George W. Bush into the White House, he helped Republicans begin their effort toward the party’s current stranglehold on the Alabama Supreme Court, where all nine members are now Republican. When Rove was hired as a consultant to work on Alabama Supreme Court races in 1994, he said people thought [...]
More than 25,000 people have now signed the petition on the White House Web site requesting for the administration of President Barack Obama to allow Alabama to peacefully secede from the United States after the reelection of — Barack Obama. “If a petition meets the signature threshold, it will be reviewed by the Administration and [...]