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President Donald Trump's most recent tweets urging Alabamans to vote for Sen. Luther Strange disappeared from his verified Twitter account Tuesday night, after the candidate was projected to lose the Republican primary runoff for a Senate seat. On Tuesday morning, Trump had tweeted: "ALABAMA, get out and vote for Luther Strange - he has proven to me that he will never let you down! #MAGA" Earlier in the morning, Trump had tweeted: "Luther Strange has been shooting up in the Alabama polls since my endorsement.
Firebrand jurist Roy Moore won the Alabama Republican primary runoff for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating an appointed incumbent backed by both President Donald Trump and deep-pocketed allies of Sen. Mitch McConnell. In an upset certain to rock the GOP establishment, Moore clinched a nine-point victory over Sen. Luther Strange to take the GOP nomination for the seat previously held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Last week, I asked a series of tough questions to the remaining major party candidates in Alabama's United States Senate special election. I had planned on asking the questions as a moderator at a now-canceled forum at Samford University.
Roy Moore's nemesis speaks out Drag queen says she's willing to 'take hit' for LGBT community to spread message of equality Last week, I asked a series of tough questions to the remaining major party candidates in Alabama's United States Senate special election. I had planned on asking the questions as a moderator at a now-canceled forum at Samford University.
Last week, I asked a series of tough questions to the remaining major party candidates in Alabama's United States Senate special election. I had planned on asking the questions as a moderator at a now-canceled forum at Samford University.
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It was in the early 1970s at Tuscaloosa's Holiday Inn. As Drake, a young civil rights attorney, walked into the governor's hotel room, it became clear to him that Wallace had seen his face before, though the two had never met.
If you're curious where Alabama voters, by and large, fall on the topic of President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, consider this: "And to a striking degree in a state where Mr. Trump won 62 percent of the vote last fall, Republicans and Democrats alike have closed ranks around Mr. Sessions, who was the state attorney general before he won a Senate seat four times and joined the president's cabinet. Interviews with voters from four counties, three of which supported Mr. Trump, revealed near-absolute confidence in Mr. Sessions's virtue and conservatism, a swelling of state pride and, in this case at least, an encroaching skepticism of the president."
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.
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 .
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.
Despite activists and groups such as the Human Rights Campaign lambasting him for his record on equal rights, the Alabama senator has officially been elected to the prestigious position with a vote of 52 in favour to 47 against. Sessions' record on LGBT+ rights is abysmal - he voted against marriage equality, is in favour of allowing discrimination in the name of religion, and called discriminatory measure Don't Ask Don't Tell "pretty effective".
With Senator Jeff Sessions preparing for a senate confirmation hearing for the position of U.S. Attorney General, Governor Robert Bentley began interviewing candidates for the seat. "It is probably the most important decision he will make with respect to the future of America, not just Alabama, but America," U.S. Congressman Mo Brooks said.
This undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Ronald Bert Smith Jr.. Smith Jr., an Alabama inmate coughed repeatedly and his upper body heaved for at least 13 minutes during an execution, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, using a drug that has previously been used in problematic lethal injections in at least three other states.
An Alabama death row inmate coughed and heaved for about 13 minutes during his execution by lethal injection on Thursday night, AL.com reported. Ronald B. Smith, convicted in Alabama of a 1994 robbery and murder, was pronounced dead at 11:05 p.m. CT, 34 minutes after the execution began at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, according to AL.com, whose reporter Kent Faulk was present.
This undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Bill Kuenzel, sentenced to death for the shooting death of store clerk Linda Jean Offord in 1987. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday Oct. 31, 2016 declined to hear an appeal by the inmate, who claims he is innocent.
Republican leaders of two branches of state government have been removed from office, while the head of the third branch, Gov. Robert Bentley, is facing an impeachment investigation sparked by a scandal that shows no signs of fading. The three distinct controversies involving high-profile Republicans have dominated state political headlines for many months, but it's not clear they have helped the rival party at all.