Sen. Doug Jones (D-Mountain Brook) and Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander introduced the Automotive Jobs Act of 2018 on Wednesday, in an attempt to stymie President Trump’s auto tariffs. The bipartisan legislation would require the International Trade Commission (ITC) to conduct a comprehensive study on the well-being, health and vitality of the United States automotive […]

Former Chambers County commissioner Debbie Wood has won state House District 38’s Republican primary runoff, beating Todd Rauch by a margin of seven votes. County officials certified Wood as the victor on Tuesday after all provisional ballots were tallied, seven of which made the difference. Wood told reporters that she had predicted the exact margin, […]

As promised, Democrat candidate for governor and Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox sent Gov. Kay Ivey a letter on Tuesday, challenging her to a series of debates between now and November’s general election. Maddox foreshadowed the letter in a speech to the Alabama Press Association last Saturday. “With our state being in its most corrupt period […]

The Senate is debating a key funding bill today, as leading appropriators hope to keep on schedule and fund the government fully by October 1, the beginning of fiscal year 2019. The bill houses funding measures for the Interior Department, EPA, Financial Services and numerous programs operated by the Department of Agriculture and Health and […]

Fighting corrupt politicians in Montgomery has become a trope in Alabama politics, and one committed to by members of both parties. “I believe we must continue to root out corruption in Montgomery,” Gov. Kay Ivey’s campaign page declares. Ivey’s Democrat challenger, Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox, just days ago said if he wins the governorship, he […]

Over the weekend, Democrat candidate for governor Walt Maddox announced a number of ethics measures he will seek to impose if elected, saying the state is at its “most corrupt period in history.” “As governor, I’m going to declare war on the culture of corruption in Montgomery,” Maddox told those at a meeting of the […]

Todd Rauch and Debbie Wood are in a tight race to become the Republican nominee for House District 38, where only six votes separate the two candidates. Wood has 2,165 votes to Rauch’s 2,159 votes. The number is well within Rauch’s reach considering there are still votes to be counted. A winner won’t be declared until […]

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill funding the Department of the Interior on Thursday which included an amendment sponsored by Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Fairhope) meant to protect key resources for the state. Thanks to the amendment, Alabama and other Gulf states now have an extra measure of confidence that Trump administration officials won’t […]

Troy King is committed to seeing the Alabama Ethics Commission address his complaint against Attorney General Steve Marshall alleging violations of state campaign finance rules, even though Marshall beat him to become the Republican nominee for attorney general in Tuesday’s runoff election. “I didn’t file an ethics complaint or a lawsuit as a publicity stunt,” […]

President Trump took to Twitter Wednesday to congratulate Rep. Martha Roby in her House District 2 primary runoff victory against former District 2 congressman Bobby Bright. Congratulations to Martha Roby of The Great State of Alabama on her big GOP Primary win for Congress. My endorsement came appropriately late, but when it came the “flood gates” […]

Alabama Republicans have chosen their candidate for attorney general: incumbent Steve Marshall. Marshall beat his Republican competitor former attorney general Troy King in Tuesday’s primary election runoff, winning 62 percent of the vote as of 9:30 p.m., with 92 percent of precincts reporting, according to the Montgomery Advertiser. A last-minute endorsement by close Trump ally […]

The last few weeks of campaigning have been relentless, brutal, and at times, heartbreaking. Today’s primary runoff will bring some resolution to all that, though surely, some rough-and-tumble will continue in many races on the road to November’s general election. Here’s the anatomy of two major races and what a win might mean:

Former Trump advisor Roger Stone is traveling Alabama with Troy King on Monday, touting King’s credentials in an attempt to give him the edge over Attorney General Steve Marshall in Tuesday’s primary runoff election. “As you can imagine, I get dozens of requests from good candidates, men and women across the country who are supporters of […]

Members of the House Judicial and Oversight Committee spent over nine hours on Thursday questioning FBI agent Peter Strzok about his role in the high-profile investigations into Hillary Clinton’s emails and President Trump’s alleged collusion with the Russian government. The committee grilled Strzok with questions about his political biases, referring to a number of anti-Trump […]

Troy King’s attempts to keep opponent Attorney General Steve Marshall from spending money that he got from a federal political action committee ran aground on Thursday when Montgomery Circuit Court Judge James Anderson denied King’s request for a temporary restraining order. King argued that contributions given to Marshall by the Republican Attorneys General Association violate […]

Attorney General Steve Marshall’s campaign will “seek expenses and attorneys’ fees for any and all efforts necessary to have the matter dismissed” unless Troy King’s legal team dismisses a lawsuit it filed against Marshall by a 2:00 pm hearing scheduled for today. That’s according to a letter obtained by Yellowhammer News in which Marshall’s attorney, […]

The race for Alabama’s attorney general got hotter Wednesday when Troy King, who faces Attorney General Steve Marshall in a primary runoff next Tuesday, filed suit against Marshall’s campaign seeking a temporary restraining order against Marshall’s use of campaign contributions given to him by the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA). King called those contributions illegal in an […]

Every person – and more so, if we’re absorbing campaign advertising, every politician – has transgressed. As we all know, some transgressions are easy to atone for and others are not so easy. Political transgressions are, by all accounts, among the most difficult to atone for, but we will see about that in next Tuesday’s […]

In a Monday appearance on Fox Business Network, Alabama Secretary of Commerce Greg Canfield reiterated his concerns about President Trump’s newly-enacted tariff regime, saying that it threatens Alabama industry. “We end up exporting about $10.9 billion worth of value in vehicles to 88 countries across the globe,” Canfield told host Stuart Varney. “So we’re concerned […]

Katie Cobb of Mobile proved her bocce skills to the world once again last week when she brought home a gold medal in Team Bocce and a silver in Doubles Bocce. Cobb’s attendance at the 2018 Seattle games was her second national Special Olympics appearance. In 2014, she brought home a gold in the single […]

PBS published a poignant report last Saturday about poverty in Lowndes County, Alabama, following a recent visit and ensuing report on the same by a Professor Philip Alston of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Alston came to examine poverty in America, and his visit prodded mixed responses. Among the most notable was U.N. Ambassador […]

President Trump told a Montana crowd on Thursday that he has high expectations for his tariff policy, predicting an end to China’s practice of robbing America’s “piggy bank.” Alabama officials are not so optimistic on this first day since the tariffs were enacted, as they wait to see what kind of consequences are brought to […]

Five years ago last Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declared in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder that the Section 4 formula of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional, due to its disparate treatment of states on a basis of old data. The court’s opinion made clear that Section 5 of the Act – which required […]

During a Congressional Black Caucus-hosted ‘Panel on the State of Voting Rights’ last week, Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) said that “we have gone backwards” when it comes to voter suppression. Sewell made these remarks two days after the five-year anniversary of Shelby County v. Holder, a Supreme Court ruling which she and other Democrats say […]