Sarah Stewart wins Republican candidacy for Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) – Sarah Stewart wins the Republican candidacy for Alabama Supreme Court Justice in Tuesday’s primary elections. Stewart received 61.6% of the vote while Bryan Taylor got 38.4%, according to the unofficial election night results from the Alabama Secretary of State’s office. Stewart currently serves on the Alabama Supreme Court as an associate […]
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Justice Sarah Stewart endorsed by 129 Republican judges | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Alabama Supreme Court Justice Sarah Stewart has received the endorsements of 80 percent of the republican judges from across the state in her campaign to be the next Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. “I worked side-by-side with Justice Stewart for 19 years, and Sarah is the only candidate in the March 5th GOP Primary […]
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Alabama State Supreme Court primary results | #elections | #alabama
CLOSE TO CALL AT THIS POINT. ALL RIGHT, ANOTHER CLOSELY WATCHED RACE HAS TO DO WITH THE STATE SUPREME COURT. CURRENT CHIEF JUSTICE TOM PARKER, WHO WILL BE RETIRING AT THE END OF HIS TERMS. AND WE CAN CONFIRM THAT CURRENT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE SARAH STEWART HAS DEFEATED FORMER STATE SENATOR BRIAN TAYLOR, JERRY BLEVINS DID […]
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Alabama Republicans to vote on nominee for chief justice, weeks after court’s frozen embryo ruling | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Republicans will choose who they want to replace the retiring chief justice of the state Supreme Court, which last month drew national attention for its decision to recognize frozen embryos as children. The ruling raised has concerns about civil liabilities for fertility clinics, and three major providers announced a pause […]
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Chief Justice candidate Blevins removed from GOP ballot, leaving Sarah Stewart versus Bryan Taylor | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Montgomery attorney Jerry M. Blevins’ name has been removed from the March 5 Republican primary ballot for Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. The removal leaves a two-way race for the Republican nomination for Chief Justice – Sarah Stewart versus Bryan Taylor. Blevins had qualified prior to the November 10 deadline to run in […]
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BCA makes second round of judicial endorsements, does not endorse for chief justice | #elections | #alabama
The Business Council of Alabama (BCA) announced Wednesday that ProgressPAC, BCA’s pro-jobs political affiliate, has endorsed a second round of judicial candidates including Chris McCool for Supreme Court and Thomas Govan for Court of Criminal Appeals. The ProgressPAC board of directors interviewed candidates seeking election to the following seats in 2024: Chief Justice of the […]
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The Decision That Could End Voting Rights | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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- November 23, 2023
- aftermath of Reconstruction
- Alabama
- American democracy
- arkansas
- basis of race
- black people
- black voters
- Black voting strength.Kimberly Wehle
- chief justice
- Chief Justice John Roberts
- clarence thomas
- conservative-dominated
- Court
- Court’s Democratic appointees
- decision
- Department of Justice
- direct threat
- Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
- enough judges
- Fifteenth Amendment
- Fifteenth Amendment demands
- free rein
- hands of powerful conservative men
- high court
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh
- Justices Neil Gorsuch
- justices’ authority
- Law
- lawmakers
- limited resources
- lower-court order
- minority voters
- modern Republican Party
- ongoing history of political parties
- part of a long-standing campaign
- political power of Black voters
- practice
- private parties
- Racial discrimination
- Republican Party
- state chapter of the NAACP
- state-district lines
- supreme court
- three-judge panel
- vast majority of claims
- voting rights act
- voting-rights case
- voting-rights foeThe Constitution
- voting-rights protections time
- white voters
A federal court’s opinion yesterday could render the Voting Rights Act meaningless, if the Supreme Court upholds it. Robert Abbott Sengstacke / Getty November 21, 2023, 9:32 AM ET The right to vote free of racial discrimination was won by blood and sacrifice, those of both the soldiers who fought to preserve the Union and […]
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Judicial selection and retention process on trial in Alaska | #alaska | #politics
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Judges play a critical role in court procedures, similar to umpires in baseball. Both judges and umpires strive to possess similar traits — impartiality, competency, and a willingness to make tough calls in front of an audience. In some states, judges run lively campaigns, hand out bumper stickers, and host rallies […]
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The Destruction of the Voting Rights Act | #elections | #alabama
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Google-News-Wire
- September 20, 2022
- abridgment of the right of any citizen
- Alabama’s challenge
- Alabama’s request
- American democracy
- Black majority
- chief justice
- Chief Justice John Roberts
- Chief Justice Warren Burger
- congressional district
- conservative supermajority
- Court’s conservative majority
- crowning achievement of the civil-rights era
- district court
- district court’s order
- environmental regulation
- federal district court
- Fifteenth Amendment
- final unraveling
- first line of his petition
- Fourteenth Amendment
- hands of a Supreme Court
- john roberts
- Justice Anthony Kennedy
- Justice Clarence Thomas
- Justice Potter Stewart
- justices’ audacious move
- language minority group
- large Black populations
- law firm
- lower court
- lower federal courts
- measure of racial equality
- new majority-Black
- ordinary case of statutory interpretation
- percent Black
- Racial discrimination
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- Roberts’s earliest Supreme Court opinions
- second day of the new term
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- state
- state of alabama
- supreme court
- Trump years
- unfinished business
- vote dilution
- voting rights act
- white candidate
- young John Roberts
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The Supreme Court delivered appalling decisions in June—on abortion, guns, and environmental regulation—but the conservative supermajority is poised to strike an even greater blow against American democracy. The justices now have the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in their sights. On October 4, the second day of the new term, they will hear Alabama’s challenge […]
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