Alabama’s newly elected chief justice: Courts must do more to keep people from going back to prison
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice-elect Sarah Stewart told lawmakers and state leaders Tuesday that courts can do more to ...
‘Prepare for worst case scenario’: Former U.S. Attorney warns women of incoming Trump presidency
Donald Trump’s win in last week’s presidential election could lead to the Supreme Court of the United States deciding if ...
Courts Continue To Hand Bureau Of Prisons Losses On First Step Act
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) continues to be dealt a series of losses in court on First Step Act ... why isn't BOP ...
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Decision on whether to overturn Trump’s New York hush money conviction is delayed
New York Judge Juan Merchan on Tuesday agreed to give Manhattan prosecutors and Donald Trump’s lawyers a week to hash out how ...
Federal judge blocks Louisiana law that requires classrooms to display Ten Commandments
A new Louisiana law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public classroom by Jan. 1 has been ...
Who Gets the Frozen Embryos in a Divorce—and Other Issues
Deciding how to share or divvy up rights to children, pets and embryos can be one of the most emotionally-charged issues in a ...
What Trump’s second term means for Colorado immigrants, public lands, abortion access and Space Command
Here’s how the coming second term of President-elect Donald Trump could impact Colorado’s immigrants, public lands, abortion ...
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Alabama has a veterans controversy with national implications
By using dubious authority to fire the state's veterans commissioner, Gov. Kay Ivey (R-AL) has created a controversy that could blow up her own administration.
What could Trump's second term bring? Deportations, tariffs, Jan. 6 pardons and more
Any nominations during Trump's second term would likely be of younger judges who could serve for decades, ensuring a conservative hold on the court for years to come. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh were in ...
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Four Downs: The fall of Alabama didn't start with Kalen DeBoer. It began last season
The fall of Alabama began last season -- not in Saturday's loss to Tennessee. But for an unthinkable fourth-and-31 conversion on the last play of the Auburn game, Alabama wouldn’t have made ...
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Copelan becomes Lee County’s first female district judge
Opelika attorney Samantha Copelan is the first woman to be elected Judge of Lee County District Court. Copelan, ...
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This ruling from Ohio’s highest court is ‘an affront’ to disabled voters
The Ohio Supreme Court, splitting 4-3 along partisan lines ... A federal judge struck down parts of the law. In Alabama, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey signed a measure that made it unlawful “to ...