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President Donald Trump cranked up the heat Tuesday on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, scorning him as "very weak" and refusing to say whether he'll fire the nation's top law enforcement officer and his onetime political ally. It was an extraordinary public rebuke, and even fellow Republicans pushed back forcefully.
Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview Tuesday that he has not made up his mind as to whether to fire his longtime ally. He told the newspaper he is "looking" at the possibility of firing the former Alabama senator and did not suggest that he will curtail his criticism of Sessions.
Since it began, I have said in this column that this Russian investigation was a media-contrived witch hunt. When you are a billionaire president and the most powerful person in the United States, and our government's FBI, intelligence agencies and the DOJ can go after you with no evidence, what chance would you and I have if they wanted us? It should scare us all.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Saks, is pushing for the creation of a US Space Corps. U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Saks, is pushing for the creation of a US Space Corps.
California is restricting publicly funded travel to four more states because of recent laws that leaders here view as discriminatory against gay and transgender people. All totaled, California now bans most state-funded travel to eight states.
The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed a ruling from a federal appeals court in an Alabama death row inmate's case. James McWilliams, 60, has been on death row since 1986 after he was convicted of raping and killing a store clerk in Tuscaloosa.
The White House is announcing the first wave of U.S. attorney candidates to replace the dozens forced out by President Donald Trump months ago. Among the candidates Trump intends to nominate are Jessie Liu, the current deputy general counsel for the Treasury Department, and Richard W. Moore, the inspector general for the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Alabama executed inmate Robert Melson late Thursday for killing three people during a robbery at a Popeye's restaurant in 1994. Melson was pronounced dead at 10:27 p.m. local time, following a lethal injection at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, according to the Associated Press .
Thomas Arthur is seen in a police photo released May 23, 2017 by the Alabama Department of Corrections in Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. Courtesy of Alabama Department of Corrections/Handout via Death row inmate Tommy Arthur, scheduled to be executed November 3, 2016, is seen in an undated picture from the Alabama Department of Corrections. Alabama Department of Corrections/Handout via Reuters The U.S. Supreme Court lifted a temporary stay for the planned execution on Thursday of a 75-year-old Alabama prisoner who has spent more than three decades on death row and faced seven previous execution dates.
Arthur, nicknamed the "Houdini of Death Row" because the state had scheduled seven other execution dates, was set to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. CT Thursday at Holman Correctional Facility at Atmore. The order didn't say specifically why it was issued.
This undated photo released by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Tommy Arthur, who was convicted in the 1982 murder of Troy Wicker. Arthur, nicknamed the Houdini of death row after having seventh executions postponed is facing an eighth date with the death chamber on Thursday, May 25, 2017, and a diminishing chance of winning another reprieve.
The Alabama senate passed a bill Friday which would prevent the changing of the names of Confederate memorials and removing of historic Confederate monuments. The bill "would prohibit the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of any architecturally significant building, memorial building, memorial street, or monument that has stood on public property for 40 or more years," reads the text of the bill, reported Yahoo News .
On May 15, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, whose members came to be known as WACs. Wartime gasoline rationing went into effect in 17 Eastern states, limiting sales to three gallons a week for non-essential vehicles.
Former Alabama House Minority Leader Craig Ford says he is not running for U.S. Senate in 2017. The lifetime Gadsden resident announced Monday he would not seek the position, but he did not rule out seeking another higher office like Alabama governor in 2018.
"The Daily Show" sent Hasan Minhaj to explore Alabama's overcrowded prison system during "Alabama Week" in a segment that aired Tuesday, April 25, 2017. "In the end, it is a comedy show so you know ahead of time what you are getting in to."
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley resigned Monday rather than face impeachment and pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor campaign violations that arose during an investigation of his alleged affair with a top aide. MONTGOMERY, Ala.
With Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley resigning one step ahead of an impeachment hearing related to an alleged affair, his successor becomes the state's second female governor and the first to rise through the political ranks on her own. Kay Ivey , the first Republican woman elected lieutenant governor of Alabama, was also the first Republican to hold that office for two straight terms.
With efforts to impeach Gov. Robert Bentley under way Monday, a local prosecutor has referred the possibility of any criminal charges -- which the state Ethics Commission last week recommended be leveled against the governor -- on to Alabama's acting attorney general. "Please note that this is not a recusal," Montgomery County District Attorney Daryl Bailey said in an email to CNN.
Jones spent years in Alabama as a U.S. attorney for the northern half of the state, most notably prosecuting KKK members for their role in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. Jones decided to get into the race to bring Democratic issues back into focus, especially while Republicans are caught in their own issues.
Steve Marshall sworn in as Alabama attorney general Former Marshall County DA says he'll step away from any direct investigations of Gov. Robert Bentley Check out this story on montgomeryadvertiser.com: http://on.mgmadv.com/2kDLiOg Steve Marshall called it "the cloud" -- floating questions about whether the attorney general's office was investigating Gov. Robert Bentley while Luther Strange interviewed for and won appointment from Bentley to the U.S. Senate. That cloud is part of a storm front that has settled over Alabama's political leadership for the past three years.