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President Donald Trump notched several important victories in Tuesday’s primary elections, but one of the night’s most closely watched races underscored that his endorsement remains influential — not invincible. In Georgia, billionaire businessman Rick Jackson defeated Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in the Republican gubernatorial runoff, delivering a rare setback …

Primary voters in Georgia, Alabama and Oklahoma head to the polls Tuesday in a series of high-stakes contests that will help define the political landscape heading into the 2026 midterm elections. The elections will determine nominees in several closely watched Senate, governor and congressional races while offering an early glimpse …

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Alabama to use a congressional map that eliminates one of the state’s two majority-Black districts, handing Republicans a significant victory as they seek to protect their narrow U.S. House majority ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. In a 6-3 decision split along ideological lines, …

Alabama officials Wednesday filed an emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to block a lower court’s order requiring the state to use a court-ordered congressional map in the 2026 midterm elections. The filing came a day after a three-judge panel upheld a previous ruling that a …

A three-judge federal panel on Monday blocked Alabama from using congressional district maps that the court said intentionally discriminated against Black voters, setting up another likely showdown before the Supreme Court of the United States. The ruling from the U.S. District Court in Birmingham found that the congressional maps proposed …

The battle over Alabama’s congressional district lines will go to federal court Friday, before the judges who ruled a 2023 map unconstitutional but after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais weakening the Voting Rights Act. The three-judge panel will consider a  request from plaintiffs in Allen v. …

Thousands of people joined demonstrations in Selma and Montgomery on Saturday to protest redistricting by southern Republican state legislatures targeting Black Democratic members of Congress. An afternoon rally in Montgomery that drew over 5,000 people featured politicians, activists and civil rights dignitaries as of the All Roads Lead to the …

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for Alabama officials to seek reinstatement of a congressional map previously ruled racially discriminatory, injecting new uncertainty into the state’s elections just days before primary voting is set to begin. The high court overturned a 2023 ruling blocking Alabama’s Republican-backed congressional …

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that U.S. Space Command headquarters will move from Colorado to Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision and reigniting a fierce political and strategic debate over the future of America’s military space operations. Speaking in the Oval Office alongside Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete …

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville formally entered the 2026 campaign for governor of Alabama Tuesday, launching a campaign website shortly before announcing his candidacy on Fox News Tuesday afternoon. “I will be the future governor of the great state of Alabama,” Tuberville said from Byron’s Smokehouse in Auburn. “I’ve still got …

A federal court Thursday ruled that the Alabama Legislature intentionally discriminated against Black voters in approving a congressional district map in 2023 that would only have had one majority-Black district. In a nearly 600-page order, the three-judge panel — U.S. Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, …

Jemma Stephenson, Alabama Reflector A federal judge Wednesday blocked the state of Alabama from conducting a voter removal program that state officials claimed was targeted at noncitizens on voter rolls. In a five-page order, U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco stopped Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen from “inactivating” people who …

Jimmy Williams The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against Alabama and its Secretary of State, Wes Allen, on Friday, alleging that the state’s effort to remove voters from its rolls was taking place too close to the Nov. 5 general election in violation of federal law. Under …

The Alabama House of Representatives voted 72-28 on Thursday in favor of a bill that would apply the state’s criminal obscenity laws to public libraries, public school libraries, and the people who work there. Critics, including the Alabama Library Association, have warned that the bill could see librarians jailed and …

Alander Rocha, Alabama Reflector Patient advocates fear that a Friday ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court stating that frozen embryos outside the womb are “children” could be the end for in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the state. In a majority opinion, Justice Jay Mitchell wrote that there was no exception for frozen …