https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/09/alabama-hsi-agent-charged
Showing posts with label Alabama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alabama. Show all posts
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Homeland security agent charged with child rape in Alabama, officials say
He “was directly involved with child exploitation cases, working with these cases and raising awareness”, Marshall added. “That’s why it’s so profoundly disappointing and frankly disgusting that we stand here today and tell you that we charged him” with crimes that are incongruent with “what his professional responsibility was”…
Thursday, June 4, 2026
Supreme court approves Alabama map that erases majority-Black district
Alabama can use a redrawn congressional map that eliminates one of the state’s two majority-Black districts in this year’s midterm elections, the US supreme court ruled in a 6-3 decision on Tuesday, another major blow to Black voters and a win for Republicans...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/supreme-court-alabama-map
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Federal court blocks Alabama’s midterm gerrymandering plan, a blow for Republicans - POLITICO
The three-judge panel blocked the state from reimplementing its 2023 congressional maps they found as “tainted by intentional race-based discrimination.”…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/26/alabama-redistricting-2026-election-order-00935834
Monday, May 18, 2026
‘They may draw racist maps, but we are the south’: thousands rally in Alabama for Black voting rights
People came to Montgomery by bus, car and plane to march on the state capitol with local and national leaders…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/16/alabama-black-voting-rights-protest
Thursday, April 16, 2026
Sunday, December 14, 2025
Christian Mom Kidnaps Daughter (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast #613)
— A Christian mom who tried to ban LGBTQ books just got arrested for kidnapping her own daughter. (0:20)
— Will the Maine Supreme Court allow a mother to keep harming her daughter with religion? (20:10)
— Ohio appellate court lets makeshift church challenge local fire codes on religious grounds. (46:31)
— Four Christian pastors want their faith to override public safety concerns in a Colorado park. (1:05:05)
— Taxpayer dollars, Christian lies: What Alabama’s voucher program really buys. (1:15:41)
— Utah high school blasted for sermon-like video blaming “sin of laziness” for mental health struggles. (1:29:35)
Interview:
— Will the Maine Supreme Court allow a mother to keep harming her daughter with religion? (20:10)
— Ohio appellate court lets makeshift church challenge local fire codes on religious grounds. (46:31)
— Four Christian pastors want their faith to override public safety concerns in a Colorado park. (1:05:05)
— Taxpayer dollars, Christian lies: What Alabama’s voucher program really buys. (1:15:41)
— Utah high school blasted for sermon-like video blaming “sin of laziness” for mental health struggles. (1:29:35)
Interview:
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Man deported to Laos despite US court order blocking his removal, attorneys say
District judge told Ice to keep Alabama man in US while he showed what judge called 'substantial claim' to citizenship…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/28/ice-deportation-alabama-laos
Monday, July 14, 2025
Saturday, May 24, 2025
U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed in Alabama immigration raid and held before release
A U.S.-born citizen who was wrestled into the dirt, handcuffed and detained in a vehicle as part of an immigration raid had a REAL ID on him that was dismissed as fake, the man's cousin said Friday...
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Alabama’s Threats to Prosecute Abortion Helpers (Reveal podcasts)
When Roe v. Wade was overturned and abortion became illegal in Alabama, helping people get out of state came with the threat of jail time.
In August 2022, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall made a guest appearance on a local conservative talk radio show. It was two months after the US Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade, and abortion was now illegal in Alabama. And Marshall addressed rumors that he planned to prosecute anyone helping people get abortions out of state.
“If someone was promoting themselves out as a funder of abortion out of state,” Marshall explained to the host, “then that is potentially criminally actionable for us.”
This particular threat launched an epic legal battle with implications for some of the most basic American rights: the right to travel, the right to free speech, the right to give and receive help.
This week on Reveal, reporter Nina Martin spends time with abortion rights groups in Alabama, following how they’ve adapted to one of the nation’s strictest anti-abortion policies—and evolved their definition of help.
Interview:
In August 2022, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall made a guest appearance on a local conservative talk radio show. It was two months after the US Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade, and abortion was now illegal in Alabama. And Marshall addressed rumors that he planned to prosecute anyone helping people get abortions out of state.
“If someone was promoting themselves out as a funder of abortion out of state,” Marshall explained to the host, “then that is potentially criminally actionable for us.”
This particular threat launched an epic legal battle with implications for some of the most basic American rights: the right to travel, the right to free speech, the right to give and receive help.
This week on Reveal, reporter Nina Martin spends time with abortion rights groups in Alabama, following how they’ve adapted to one of the nation’s strictest anti-abortion policies—and evolved their definition of help.
Interview:
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Court: Alabama redistricting discriminates against Black voters : NPR
In finding for the Black voters who sued, they wrote, "try as we might, we cannot understand the 2023 Plan as anything other than an intentional effort to dilute Black Alabamians' voting strength and evade the unambiguous requirements of court orders standing in the way."…
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5392385/alabama-redistricting-discriminates-black-voters
Friday, May 9, 2025
Alabama ‘purposely’ diluted Black votes with congressional plan, court finds | CNN Politics
A federal court ruled Thursday that Alabama engaged in intentional discrimination when it refused to draw a congressional plan with a second Black majority district after courts, including the Supreme Court, repeatedly rejected maps with just one such district…
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/politics/alabama-congressional-plan-court-ruling
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Justice Department scraps deal over Alabama county’s sewage woes - The Washington Post
Friday's decision comes nearly two years after the Biden administration finalized an agreement with local health officials and the Alabama Department of Public Health, based on findings that residents in rural Lowndes County had long suffered inadequate access to sanitation systems, faced burdensome fines and liens, and had serious health risks plaguing their community ignored...
Monday, February 24, 2025
Alabama Wants to Punish Schools That Don’t Pray (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast #571)
— Alabama schools could lose funding if they don’t mandate daily Christian prayers. (0:22)
— Oklahoma lawmaker: I don’t want “pink-haired” atheists teaching the Bible in schools. (11:56)
— Oklahoma lawmakers shoot down slew of Christian Nationalist bills. (21:48)
— Tim Barton: We “arrest students that break the Ten Commandments,” so we should put the list up in schools. (42:15)
— Australia will keep screwing up the religion question in its 2026 Census. (49:15)
— Survey finds low levels of “Religious Nationalism” in America. Why doesn’t it feel that way? (1:07:35)
Interview:
— Oklahoma lawmaker: I don’t want “pink-haired” atheists teaching the Bible in schools. (11:56)
— Oklahoma lawmakers shoot down slew of Christian Nationalist bills. (21:48)
— Tim Barton: We “arrest students that break the Ten Commandments,” so we should put the list up in schools. (42:15)
— Australia will keep screwing up the religion question in its 2026 Census. (49:15)
— Survey finds low levels of “Religious Nationalism” in America. Why doesn’t it feel that way? (1:07:35)
Interview:
Friday, November 29, 2024
Tommy Tuberville Called Out For Pushing 1 Of The 'Oldest False Choices' In Politics | HuffPost Latest News
"[He's] apparently unaware that many of the weapons that are bought and sent to Ukraine are made in Alabama," Nichols said.
"People don't realize that most of American foreign aid, which is less than 1% of our budget, is spent in the United States on American workers for American products," he continued. "And the idea that you can simply say, 'Well, things happening in other parts of the world will never affect us,' is foolish and shortsighted."…
Thursday, October 3, 2024
Thursday, September 5, 2024
Saturday, August 10, 2024
Saturday, August 3, 2024
Alabama jailer pleads guilty in death of prisoner who froze to death in cell
Joshua Jones reportedly admits that 'collectively we did it. We killed him' after Tony Mitchell died of hypothermia…
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Alabama Republican Party chair: Democracy ‘leads to socialism’
Making the case that the Republican Party is increasingly hostile toward democracy is simple: One need only quote Republican officials.
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