Tag: SUPREME COURT

During Friday's episode of Mobile radio's FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show, " Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall discussed the failed attempt from a three-judge panel to block Alabama from implementing a 6-1 conservative-leaning congressional map drawn in 2023 for the 2026 election.

The Department of Justice filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday backing Alabama’s efforts to use a 6-1 Republican congressional map for the 2026 election.

During a Wednesday episode of Alabama's Morning News with JT, Republican candidate for Attorney General, Katherine Robertson, criticized a federal appeals court's recent ruling blocking a 6-1 conservative congressional map passed by Alabama legislators in 2023.

The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) handed down a unanimous decision on Thursday in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, ruling that shippers can be sued for negligence. 

The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) struck down a 2023 federal court-ordered Alabama congressional map on Monday.

Winning a favorable verdict does not necessarily establish a solid long-lasting constitutional precedent. That’s why the Foundation for Moral Law, when writing amicus briefs, is skeptical about seeking quick wins that might compromise principles. In our briefs, we try to make a unique contribution to the case by stressing the Bible, solid history, and the plain meaning of the Constitution as understood by its framers. 

According to Katherine Robertson, the chief counsel for Alabama's attorney general, the U.S. Supreme Court's Wednesday decision in Louisiana v. Callais is vindication for decades of misinformed attacks by various federal courts against Alabama's congressional and legislative maps.

A 6-3 majority of the Supreme Court of the United States found the use of race-based redistricting to be unconstitutional in a Louisiana case on Wednesday.

It seems clear, however, that the framers of the 14th Amendment did not intend to confer citizenship on everyone who is born in the United States even if that person’s parents were not citizens, were not here legally, or did not intend to reside here permanently.

The left must violate your rights to get you to agree with them. Then they gaslight you by saying you are the one violating their rights, even while the law shows the exact opposite. The Constitution is on our side. Keep going!

Remember this before accepting government subsidies: With shekels come shackles.

When you were in school, you hopefully learned that there are three branches of government: legislative, executive and judicial. But in a recent oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the quiet part out loud and unveiled a fourth: the administrative branch.

The Alabama Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit by the City of Birmingham against Jefferson County Sheriff Mark Pettway regarding the county's refusal to house Birmingham inmates.

I’ve often thought that the underlying message of “Lord of the Rings” is that sometimes the Lord takes an ordinary person like Bilbo Baggins, calling him to play a pivotal role in a cosmic struggle between forces of good and evil, the dimensions and consequences of which he was previously unaware. 

Yes, prayer is protected by the First Amendment, but it deserves special protection because our well-being as a nation depends upon God hearing and answering prayer.

Earlier this week, during an interview on Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show," Alabama Republican Party chairman John Wahl said last month's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to postpone a decision on Louisiana's redistricting case was a "good sign" for Alabama.

Alabama Public Library Service chairman John Wahl was swift to praise the Friday SCOTUS decision in which it sided with a set of Maryland parents who challenged a local school district for not allowing them to opt their elementary-aged child out from a class on gender identity and other LGBTQ+ issues.

Lieutenant Gov. Will Ainsworth hopes the Tennessee Supreme Court case on a law banning “gender-affirming care” for minors will end in a victory, not only for Tennessee but for Alabama.

After oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said scientific evidence wasn’t on the side of those challenging state bans on transgender surgeries and medication for minors.

While Alabama leaders applauded the U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing Virginia to remove illegal voters from its rolls, state leadership was mum on whether the state would try to reimplement its own voter purge program, which was recently blocked in federal court.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Biden administration’s attempts to amend federal rules regarding Title IX, which added gender identity to the list of federally protected categories while the matter is further adjudicated.  

Two Alabama clinics offering in-vitro fertilization services asked the U.S. Supreme Court last week to take up an appeal of a February ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall swiftly condemned President Joe Biden's recently announced plans to overhaul the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and amend the United States Constitution.

We all must recognize that every constitutional decision has ramifications for generations to come, for those in power from the left or the right, affecting issues we may not have dreamed of at the time. 

Attorney General Steve Marshall recently led a multi-state brief in the U.S. Supreme Court, defending a First Amendment claim from a Jewish temple in Florida after the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority rejected a proposed advertisement for being religious in nature.

Earlier this month, Louisiana adopted a law requiring all public schools to display the 10 Commandments, accompanied by a 200-word statement explaining that the Commandments were “a prominent part of American education for almost three centuries.”

June is now officially “Life Month.” And all the glory goes to God.