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Giuliani lawyer says Trump ally and former N.Y. mayor owes $1.36 million in legal fees

NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani’s former lawyer sued him Monday, alleging the ex–New York City mayor has paid only a fraction of nearly $1.6 million in legal fees he’s racked up from investigations into his efforts to keep Donald Trump in the White House. See: Trump hosts $100,000-per-person fundraiser to help Giuliani pay legal […]

Alabama

Republican lawmaker to resign seat in Alabama and admit he claimed fraudulent home address | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama legislator will plea guilty to a felony voter fraud charge that he used a fraudulent address to run for office in a district where he did not live, according to an agreement filed Thursday. Republican Rep. David Cole, of Huntsville, resigned from the Alabama House of Representatives on Thursday. […]

Alabama

Alabama Republicans resist U.S. Supreme Court order to draw second Black-majority congressional district | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers on Friday proposed a new congressional map that would include a single majority-Black district in the state, a plan that could defy a Supreme Court order to give minority voters a greater voice in elections. Lawmakers in the Republican-dominated Senate passed the plan 24-6, with the House speeding toward […]

Alabama

Virginia is latest state to quit bipartisan program aimed at sharing data to ensure accurate voter rolls | #elections | #alabama

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Election officials in Virginia have announced plans to withdraw the state from a bipartisan effort designed to ensure accurate voter lists and combat fraud — but that also has been caught up in conspiracy theories spread since the 2020 presidential election. When Virginia formally withdraws later this year, it will become […]

Alabama

Wisconsin election officials aim to resurrect inspector-general office to rebuild confidence in democratic process | #elections | #alabama

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Election officials in battleground Wisconsin hope to revive a bipartisan plan they say is critical to rebuilding confidence in elections but that was killed last week by Republicans without debate. The state’s chief elections official said a new division designed to handle voters’ concerns and deal with an onslaught of records […]

Alabama

Republican secretary of state’s first act in office: withdrawing Alabama from voter-registration organization | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Wes Allen speaks at his inauguration ceremony on the steps of the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery. AP MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s new secretary of state has announced the state’s withdrawal from a 32-state voter-registration partnership, a data-sharing effort that was designed to maintain accurate voter rolls but has sometimes become the target of […]

Arkansas

Arkansas governor says he supports the science behind COVID-19 vaccines, as daily U.S. cases hold above 65,000

Outgoing Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is considering a presidential run, took a shot at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s call to investigate the COVID-19 vaccines, arguing that “we shouldn’t undermine the science.” Hutchinson, a Republican, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that Arkansas didn’t have vaccine mandates, but that he and other medical experts […]

Alaska

Political ad spending is breaking records: Here’s where the money is going in critical Senate races | #alaska | #politics

This story has been updated to reflect the number of TV ads Rep. Val Demings’s campaign is currently running statewide. Outside spending is pouring into the 2022 Senate races, as Democratic control of the chamber hangs in flux. Nearly $450 million in outside spending has been spent on Senate races so far this cycle, according […]

Alabama

Senate Republican Tuberville alleges that Democrats want to provide slavery reparations to ‘the people that do the crime’ | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville asserted that Democrats support reparations for the descendants of enslaved people because “they think the people that do the crime are owed that.” The first-term Alabama Republican spoke at a Saturday evening rally in Nevada featuring former President Donald Trump, a political ally. His comments were part of […]

Alabama

Black leaders rebuke first-term Senate Republican Tommy Tuberville’s inflamed remarks on crime and reparations | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

As far as Jeremy Ellis is concerned, Republican Tommy Tuberville should know or learn more about the long history and struggles of the Black Alabama residents he represents in the U.S. Senate. Tuberville told people Saturday at an election rally in Nevada that Democrats support reparations for the descendants of enslaved people because “they think […]