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Alabama

To boost Trump, GOP attorneys general charge into battle over state election rules • Alabama Reflector | #elections | #alabama

With less than six months before voting begins, the legal jousting over the rules for the 2024 election is already underway. And former President Donald Trump’s campaign is getting support from allies who have stayed mostly under the national radar: red-state attorneys general. In court filings made in recent months, these chief state legal officers […]

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Left-wing groups sue Alabama over new ballot harvesting law | #elections | #alabama

The ACLU, NAACP and other groups filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday against Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, Alabama’s 42 District Attorneys and Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen to block the recently enacted Senate Bill 1, which increased penalties for ballot harvesting in Alabama.  The ACLU of Alabama claimed the law “directly targets, […]

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GOP attorney’s general blast Biden admin over new rule to ban Christians from becoming foster care parents over gender views | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

WASHINGTON (TND) — The Biden administration proposed a new rule that would essentially ban Christians from becoming foster care parents over their views on sexuality and gender identity. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined The National Desk’s Jan Jeffcoat to discuss the issue. “Clearly, this administration is trying to develop a two-tiered system of foster […]

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AG Marshall, Aderholt demand change to proposed rule penalizing foster parents who don’t affirm gender identity | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville) signed separate letters demanding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rescind a proposed rule they said would discriminate against religious foster parents. The rule, published in September, requires state agencies to submit plans to the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) […]

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State of Alabama agrees to pay $515,000 special master bill in redistricting lawsuit | #elections | #alabama

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall agreed to pay a requested $515,000 bill from court-appointed special master Richard Allen for fees and expenses related to drawing congressional redistricting maps in October for the 2024 election.  In October, a panel of three federal judges chose a map for Alabama to use in its upcoming congressional elections in […]

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AG Marshall promotes bill to combat border crisis; Doubles down on call to revoke student visas for supporting terrorist groups | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

CULLMAN — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall spoke at the Cullman County Republican Women’s Dinner on Tuesday, where he discussed the ongoing crisis at the southern border and conflict in Israel. Marshall began by praising Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the resources he has been providing to protect border towns. “I had the opportunity to […]

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Legal fights over voting districts could play role in control of Congress for 2024 | #elections | #alabama

FILE – A map of a GOP proposal to redraw Alabama’s congressional districts is displayed at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Democrats got a potential boost for the 2024 congressional elections as courts in Alabama and Florida ruled in the summer of 2023 that Republican-led legislatures had unfairly diluted the […]

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Plaintiffs object to new Alabama congressional map in redistricting lawsuit | #elections | #alabama

Plaintiffs in a redistricting lawsuit against the State of Alabama formally objected in federal district court on Friday to the new congressional district map passed by state legislators recently. A federal court hearing with a three-judge panel to decide whether the map passed by Republicans will stand for the 2024 election is set for August […]

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Anti-abortion rally March for Life sets its sight on US Capitol | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Anti-abortion activists are once again gathering in Washington for the “March for Life,” but this time something has changed. The annual protest first began the year after the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe v Wade in 1973, which made abortion legal in the US. It’s been held every year ever since. But last year, just […]

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Alabama’s Steve Marshall to Prosecute Women for Abortion Pills | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall Alabama intends to criminally prosecute women who use abortion pills to terminate a pregnancy, using an old law adopted to protect children from cocaine and other drugs, the attorney general has announced. The announcement fell just days after the FDA changed its regulations to make a commonly-used abortion pill far […]

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