Posts by Caleb Taylor

Newly unsealed documents in a lawsuit against Alabama’s transgender surgery ban for minors reveal the Biden administration lobbied against including minimum age requirements in the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s (WPATH) standards of care for surgeries.

Briggs & Stratton laid off 38 workers at their Auburn location last week.

The Alabama Policy Institute launched a new website dedicated to getting information to Alabama parents about the state’s new school choice law, the CHOOSE Act, on Friday.

In a unanimous vote at a recent meeting, the Alabama A&M University Board of Trustees voted to extend the contract of president Daniel Wims to December 31, 2030. 

Alabama’s labor force participation rate for May held steady at 57.5%, according to Alabama Department of Labor Secretary Fitzgerald Washington.

The NAACP is attempting to subpoena documents and communications between Chris Brown, owner of a political consulting firm called Red State Strategies, and his clients in the State House and Senate as part of an ongoing redistricting lawsuit.

Stacy Lee Drake, 50, is on the run from police after allegedly committing multiple homicides in Oklahoma.

Caroleene Dobson, Alabama’s second congressional district Republican nominee, announced on Wednesday that she will seek federal funding and other remedies to address violent crime that is running rampant and attacking innocent individuals in cities and towns throughout the district.

U.S. President Joe Biden announced another executive order on Tuesday giving amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.

Attorneys who a panel found engaged in "judge shopping" while suing the state of Alabama over its Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act objected to a recent court order stating they deceived a judicial panel investigating the allegations. 

Miriam Shehane “restored balance” to Alabama’s judicial system, according to Gov. Kay Ivey.

Miriam Shehane, 91, passed away on Monday afternoon.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) endorsed Caroleene Dobson in her bid for Alabama's newly-drawn second congressional district on Monday. 

Hearings for 11 attorneys suing the State of Alabama over its Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act engaged in "judge shopping" will be held next week. 

U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) and 21 other members of Congress have introduced the Dismantle DEI Act to eliminate all federal DEI programs and funding for federal agencies, contractors, organizations receiving federal grants, and educational accreditation agencies.

Alabama FarmPAC, a political action committee of the Alabama Farmers Federation, endorsed former President Donald Trump on Friday.

Plaintiffs in a wrongful death in vitro fertilization (IVF) lawsuit that has received national attention in recent months asked the Mobile County Circuit Court to declare a new Alabama IVF provider immunity law unconstitutional this week.

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling affirming nationwide access to an abortion pill will “allow policies to continue which endanger the health and safety of women,” according to U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Haleyville).

U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tennessee) attended and helped raise money for a Donald Trump for President fundraiser in Mountain Brook last week.

Southern Baptist Convention delegates approved a resolution opposing in-vitro fertilization on Wednesday.

The Montgomery-based, left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center nonprofit laid off over 60 employees on Wednesday.

The Alabama Legislature will likely reconsider gambling legislation in 2025 similar to the bill that failed to pass by one vote in the Senate last month, according to State Sen. Garlan Gudger (R-Cullman).

A February Alabama Supreme Court ruling was the reason why the Southern Baptist Convention will vote on whether to ban in-vitro fertilization, according to Rev. Albert Mohler.

The newly formed Patients Coalition for Medical Cannabis is advocating for the continued implementation of Alabama’s medical cannabis law.

The Department of Justice intervened in a lawsuit filed by liberal groups against the state of Alabama’s new ballot harvesting law.

Hunter Biden’s three felony convictions on gun-related charges are the beginning of holding the “Biden Crime Family” accountable, according to U.S. Rep. Jerry Carl (R-Mobile). 

United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain is under investigation by a federal court-appointed watchdog tasked with monitoring the union.