Defeated Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore filed a complaint in Montgomery County Circuit Court last night seeking to block the formal certification of Democrat Doug Jones’ victory. Certification was scheduled to happen today. Here’s a copy of the full complaint: 2017 12 27 Complaint Moore v King by Yellowhammer News on Scribd   (Share […]

    Defeated Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore late Wednesday filed a complaint seeking to block the formal certification of Democrat Doug Jones’ victory in this month’s special election. The state canvasing board is set to make that victory official today. But Moore filed a complaint in Montgomery County Circuit Court asking a judge to […]

  Late Wednesday evening, the U.S. Senate campaign for former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore announced it had filed a complaint on behalf of Moore calling on the certification of the December 12 special election to be delayed until a fraud investigation can take place. According to a press release, the complaint was […]

  Alabama runs the nation’s leanest Medicaid program, according to statistics released last week by a federal agency. The annual report by the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission, an arm of Congress, contains 172 pages’ worth of data about the nation’s Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program agencies. But the statistic that jumps […]

The Alabama Policy Institute staff made a list and we’re checking it twice as we think back on 2017 and what was “naughty” or “nice.” What made your list this year? Nice: The legislature passed four pro-life bills this year… This year, the legislature passed four bills each that aim at protecting the sanctity of […]

  About those polls. On a day when Republican Roy Moore’s faint flicker of hope died — the Alabama secretary of state’s office reported Wednesday that the number of provisional and overseas ballots won’t be nearly enough to overcome his deficit with Democrat Doug Jones in the Senate race — it is worth examining the […]

  Gov. Kay Ivey reacted to the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act earlier today by calling it “historic” and declaring it a “boon” for the Alabama economy. “American families know best how to spend their hard-earned dollars, not politicians in Washington,” she said in a statement issued Wednesday. “I am thankful both […]

  Late Tuesday after the U.S. Senate passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Sens. Richard Shelby and Luther Strange offered remarks praising its passage and touted the stimulative effect it would have the economy. Shelby called the legislation, which passed along party line 51-48, “historic” and declared it would simplify the tax […]

    The tax cut bill on track for passage today will create 4,632 jobs in Alabama and boost the income of the average middle-income family by more than $519, according to a study released this week. The estimates come from an updated analysis by the Tax Foundation, which projects that the Tax Cuts and […]

          Listen to the 10 min audio Read the transcript: TOM LAMPRECHT:  Harry, anyone following the news realizes that the House Judiciary Committee had somewhat of a firestorm last week when Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, came before that committee. There was much discussion over what appeared to be partisanship […]

  Monday in an appearance on Birmingham’s Talk 99.5 “Matt & Aunie Show,” Rep. Mo Brooks offered listeners an update on his status following the prostate cancer surgery he underwent last week. Brooks seemed upbeat about his progress. He was asked by hosts Matt Murphy and Andrea Lindenberg about how difficult 2017 had been given […]

  U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham), one of the key allies of Sen.-elect Doug Jones during this year’s U.S. Senate special election campaign, discussed her get-out-the-vote effort in Alabama’s African-American community NPR’s “Weekend Edition Saturday.” Sewell acknowledged she was “partially excited” about African-American turnout in that election. However, she also said she believed the African-American […]

  By now many Alabamians have watched the campaign clip that had the rest of the country laughing at us for days: former Shelby County commissioner Ted Crockett’s interview last week with CNN’s Jake Tapper. Speaking on Moore’s behalf, Crockett said the judge “probably” believes homosexuality should be illegal and that Americans who aren’t Christian […]

  On this weekend’s broadcast of “CBS Sunday Morning,” Sen.-elect Doug Jones discussed his unlikely special election victory. Jones reminded viewers that before Alabama had transitioned to a majority Republican state, it was once a reliable Democrat state for well over a century. “People forget – a Republican didn’t send anybody to the Senate for […]

    Republicans should not be disheartened by Roy Moore’s loss in Alabama, because the election had little to do with Doug Jones — and probably even less with Donald Trump or the Republican agenda. Don’t get me wrong. It’s quite troubling that the GOP’s thin Senate majority just became anorexic, but this election by […]

  For young Alabama lawyer Brett Talley, his withdrawal from consideration for a federal judgeship should not be the last word on his promising career. With the right combination of graciousness and gumption, Talley can rise above this setback — just as a then-40-year-old judicial nominee named Jeff Sessions did when his nomination was derailed […]

  A liberal group founded by former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander has named Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill to its “Voter Suppression Wall of Shame.” Citing Alabama’s voter identification law and former Gov. Robert Bentley’s decision to close some driver’s license offices, Let America Vote accuses Merrill of trying to block black […]

  Local talk radio is a strong force in Alabama. The Senate Leadership Fund—a Mitch McConnell-backed super PAC—learned this lesson during the GOP primary process when it that supported Luther Strange against Roy Moore. An SLF memo leaked to The New York Times immediately after the election described “the power of talk radio” as a […]

  Congressman Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, delivered an emotional speech on the floor of the House of Representatives today announcing he has prostate cancer. Watch the video here (hat tip Buzzfeed): Please pray for the congressman and his family.

    Tuesday’s special election victory by Democrat Doug Jones was dramatic — no doubt about it. Barring a successful recount, he will become the first Democrat to represent Alabama in the Senate in nearly a quarter century. Here are the six most notable takeaways from an election that capped a very strange year in […]

  9:35 — Oh well.  Shoulda. Coulda. Woulda.  It’s time to re-group, to heal, to learn … and to fight back. 9:25 — AP calls it for Jones.  Too soon? 9:24 — Tie ball game! 49.2 to 49.2 9:20 — Those odds makers are all over the place. About an hour ago they had Moore favored to […]

    I didn’t vote for Roy Moore because I believe at least some of those allegations are credible. I didn’t vote for Doug Jones, either, because he supports what any just man would call infanticide. And no, I didn’t waste it on a write-in candidate. I did what I’ve done in every general election […]

  It’s a beautiful way to end an ugly election: The weather isn’t expected to impact voter turn out at all. It may be a little colder than usual in the northern part of Alabama, with highs in the 48-52 degree range, according to James Spann, but it’ll be sunny across the entire state. No […]

  Even interventionists are regretting some of the wars into which they helped plunge the United States in this century. Among those wars are Afghanistan and Iraq, the longest in our history; Libya, which was left without a stable government; Syria’s civil war, a six-year human rights disaster we helped kick off by arming rebels […]