Alabama: Voters to decide primary runoffs in new Congressional District | #elections | #alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama voters decided primary runoffs on Tuesday for the state’s newly redrawn 2nd Congressional District, setting up a potentially historic November race that could play a part in the battle for control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Shomari Figures, a former top aide to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, defeated […]
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Federal appeals court hears arguments over Arkansas’ ban on gender-affirming care for minors
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Arguments before a federal appeals court that is considering whether to reinstate Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for minors focused Thursday on whether it and similar restrictions adopted by two dozen states discriminate on the basis of sex. Ten judges with the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. […]
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Biden’s ballot access in Ohio and Alabama is in the hands of Republican election chiefs, lawmakers | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Democratic President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is wrangling with Republican-dominated state governments in Ohio and Alabama to assure he is listed on their fall ballots, as once-mundane procedural negotiations get caught up in the nation’s fractious politics. Both states, which control a combined 26 electoral votes, have deadlines for appearing on […]
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Audit on Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders $19,000 lectern to be released
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The co-chairman of a legislative committee that ordered the audit of a $19,000 lectern bought for Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday he expects the report on the purchase to be released to the public within the next 10 days. Republican Rep. Jimmy Gazaway said he and Republican Sen. […]
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Things to know when the Arkansas Legislature convenes to take up a budget and other issues
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas lawmakers are convening at the Capitol and their top agenda item is taking up Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ $6.3 billion proposed budget for the coming year. The session also could include efforts to tweak or outright repeal a law dealing with cryptocurrency mining operations. Sanders, a Republican who took […]
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Arkansas, local officials mark anniversary of tornadoes that killed four and destroyed homes
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas and local officials hailed the response from emergency workers, community groups and individuals on Friday as they marked the one-year anniversary of tornadoes that tore through the state and killed four people. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders visited a title company in Little Rock and a church in Jacksonville that […]
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Alabama enacts new restrictions on absentee ballot requests | #elections | #alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has placed new restrictions on assistance with absentee ballot requests, making it illegal to return another person’s ballot application and making it a felony to pay someone to distribute or collect applications. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday announced she had signed the bill into law a day after it […]
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Lands, a Democrat who ran on reproductive rights, flips seat in Alabama House | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Marilyn Lands, who campaigned on abortion rights in deeply conservative Alabama, won a special election to the Alabama Legislature, in a victory that Democrats say illustrates voter backlash to extreme reproductive restrictions imposed by Republicans. Lands, a Democrat, on Tuesday decisively defeated Republican Teddy Powell to win the open House of Representatives seat in a […]
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Arkansas Gov. Sanders deploys National Guard to US-Mexico border
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas National Guard will send about 40 guardsmen to Texas to support border control efforts along the nation’s southern border, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ office said Tuesday. The guard’s operation is at the governor’s direction and will begin April 1 and run through May 30, officials said in a […]
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Alabama IVF ruling spotlights anti-abortion movement’s long game | #elections | #alabama
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are legally protected children is highlighting how support for the idea that a fetus should have the same rights as a person underpins far less dramatic laws and proposals from abortion foes across the U.S. Lawmakers in at least six states have […]
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