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In a scathing opinion more than 570 pages long, a panel of three federal judges issued a final ruling on Thursday concluding that not only did the congressional map Alabama Republicans adopted in 2023 violate the civil rights of Black voters, but that lawmakers had also intentionally discriminated against that same group in passing their map.
A group of LGBTQ+ baristas is working to unionize a Starbucks in Huntsville for what they hope will help create a more fair and equitable workplace for everyone.
But there’s no need to argue the finer points of this, because Sells didn’t do this for serious consideration or because he’s a serious lawmaker looking to make a real difference in the state. He did it for attention, and because he watched Fox News a few times and saw the prison porn segments on El Salvador’s mega prison and the idea of treating humans terribly as a form of corrections was appealing.
The agreement, reached under the Biden Administration, required the state’s Department of Public Health to improve sanitation efforts in Alabama’s Black Belt. It’s unclear what the termination will mean on the ground.
An Alabama grand jury has recommended that a city's police department be "immediately abolished," finding there is a "rampant culture of corruption," officials said Wednesday while announcing the indictment of five of the agency's officers, including its police chief.
No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a sprawling labor system that dates back more than 150 years — including the brutal convict leasing era that replaced slavery — it has constructed a template for the commercialization of mass incarceration.
HB 111 (What is a Woman) is on the Senate agenda tomorrow (#20 out of 35 total bills). HB 167 (mandatory filters on devices) is #18 on the calendar and HB 195 (anti sex ed) is #19.
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