A recent poll conducted independently of either campaign showed that former Auburn University head football coach Tommy Tuberville has a major lead over former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in Alabama’s U.S. Senate Republican primary runoff race. Cygnal, a Montgomery-based, nationally respected polling firm, conducted a survey from May 7-10 among 607 likely GOP primary […]

Tommy Tuberville’s campaign for Senate went up on television Monday with its first television advertising campaign of the runoff. The former Auburn coach’s spots will be airing for the next 10 days exclusively on Fox News in Alabama. The ad being aired will hit former Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his relationship with President Donald […]

A disclosure filed Monday shows former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions earned $108,000 for giving speeches in the months after he left the Trump administration. The largest fee, $24,000, was paid by Skybridge Capital, an investment firm owned by former Trump communications director Anthony Scaramucci. The largest single source of payments came from Young America’s […]

Governor Kay Ivey announced Monday the special election dates for the contest to replace former State Rep. April Weaver (R-Brierfield), who resigned from her job representing Alabama House District 49 to join the Trump administration. The deadline to qualify with the two major political parties is Tuesday, June 2 at 5:00 p.m. The special primary […]

MONTGOMERY — Governor Kay Ivey on Thursday afternoon announced that she intends to sign both the Fiscal Year 2021 General Fund and Education Trust Fund budgets, however she has returned SB 161 — with an executive amendment tacked on — to the Senate. The executive amendment deals with federal coronavirus relief funds allocated to the […]

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) endorsed former State Senator Bill Hightower’s (R-Mobile) campaign for Congress on Thursday. Cruz announced the endorsement via tweet, saying, “I’m proud to support and endorse [Bill Hightower] for Congress in #AL01” Widely thought of as one of the most conservative members of Congress, Cruz placed second in the 2016 Republican […]

Former State Representative Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) released a video on Tuesday evening comparing his 2014 prosecution for perjury to the legal treatment received by Lt. General Michael Flynn. Moore is currently in a runoff against Wiregrass businessman Jeff Coleman to be the Republican nominee in the race to represent Alabama’s Second Congressional District. In 2014, […]

In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) scolded certain Republicans on the federal level for appearing in public during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic while not wearing masks. Jones also gave a hat tip to Governor Kay Ivey (R-AL) for her administration’s recent approach to the crisis. Speaking to CNN’s Alisyn […]

MONTGOMERY — Yellowhammer News on Tuesday obtained polling that shows an overwhelming majority of Alabama Republicans support the state legislature appropriating federal COVID-19 relief funds rather than Governor Kay Ivey. In the wake of a much-publicized row over how the state will handle appropriating federal CARES Act dollars, the Alabama Senate and House Republican Caucuses […]

State Rep. April Weaver (R-Brierfield) on Tuesday announced that she has resigned effective immediately to join the administration of President Donald J. Trump. She was first elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in November 2010 and was in her third term. A release from Weaver did not disclose what her new role will be […]

Add the plans of Alabama legislators to the many facets of life disrupted by the coronavirus. After a pandemic-induced six-week break from mid-March until early May, state leaders agreed that upon resumption of session, only local bills and the budgets would be voted upon because the statehouse had to be closed to the public as […]

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, alongside 16 other state attorneys general, has signed on to a letter asking Congress to investigate China’s role in the coronavirus pandemic. The letter is dated May 9, and was primarily authored by South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson. “[W]e are writing to ask for Congressional Hearings into the communist […]

U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) has doubled down on supporting his longtime friend, former Vice President Joe Biden, as the 2020 presidential hopeful faces allegations from a former staffer that Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993. Jones in a Wednesday Huffington Post article broke his silence on the allegations by attacking the “credibility” of the […]

MONTGOMERY — State Rep. Steve Clouse (R-Ozark) on Friday released a statement saying that Governor Kay Ivey has “indicated” that she will veto the Fiscal Year 2021 General Fund budget that passed the Alabama legislature on Thursday. Clouse is the House Ways and Means General Fund committee chairman. His statement follows Ivey on Thursday announcing […]

In a live televised phone interview with “Fox & Friends” on Friday morning, President Donald J. Trump launched perhaps his strongest public criticism yet of former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. When asked by Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade if there would have been a “Russia hoax” at all if current Attorney General Bill Barr had […]

The chair and vice chair of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians (PCI) have praised President Donald J. Trump for his administration’s efforts in responding to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin and Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt released a joint statement explaining how $4.8 billion […]

MONTGOMERY — Governor Kay Ivey on Thursday announced that she is willing to abdicate control over spending the approximately $1.8 billion in federal stimulus money made available to the State of Alabama through the CARES Act. That federal legislation designated all spending authority to the respective governor of each state, however the Alabama legislature has […]

A group of Republican House Representatives was stopped from making an unannounced inspection of the Alabama Department of Labor on Wednesday. The representatives wanted answers as to why so many of their constituents have not been able to receive the unemployment benefits for which they applied. The group was instead welcomed into Secretary of Labor […]

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) has released a survey that shows 70% of America’s small business owners are concerned about unfounded COVID-19 lawsuits being brought against their companies. The survey was conducted among some of its 325,000-member businesses. In Alabama, State Senator Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) has introduced a bill that would grant civil […]

U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) is backing former Vice President Joe Biden over Tara Reade, who has alleged Biden sexually assaulted her when she worked for Biden’s Senate office in 1993. Per The Huffington Post, Jones on Wednesday broke his public silence over the allegations. Alabama’s junior senator is a longtime friend of Biden’s and […]

State Senator Tom Whatley (R-Auburn) has introduced a bill that would limit the powers of the State Health Officer and put a 14-day limit on the amount of time a governor can unilaterally declare a State of Emergency. If voted into law, the legislation would require the state health officer to get the governor’s approval […]

State Senator Cam Ward (R-Alabaster) has introduced a bill that would, for a period of two years, redirect all the money gathered by the Rebuild Alabama Act into a small business stimulus fund. Since the bill amends Alabama’s constitution, the public would get to vote on the proposal during the July runoff if it is […]

Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04) has hired Alex Vanderford to be the manager of his 2020 reelection campaign. Vanderford is a native of the district Aderholt represents, raised in Muscle Shoals. He is a graduate of Martin Methodist College in Pulaski, Tennessee. After working on now-U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn’s (R-TN) victorious campaign in 2018, Vanderford was […]

Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05) announced Monday that he has promoted Alabama native Marshall Yates to serve as his new chief of staff. Yates has been working for Brooks since early 2017, most recently as his legislative director. He has previously held numerous roles on Republican campaigns and other conservative institutions. In a statement, Brooks described […]