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The Alabama Reflector is an independent, nonprofit news outlet dedicated to covering state government and politics in the state of Alabama.
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Via @jemmakstephenson.bsky.social: Alabama State Superintendent Eric Mackey presented statewide assessment test results Tuesday that showed improvement in reading scores but worrying trends in math scores.
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State Superintendent Eric Mackey said Tuesday that the Alabama State Department of Education was getting “more and more reports” each day about last month’s data breach at the department.
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Via @alander.bsky.social: The Alabama Attorney General's Office said the three-term representative "falsely made, completed, or altered a builder’s license.” A copy of the indictment was not immediately available Tuesday.
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Democrats in Congress Monday called on President Joe Biden to prove to voters that he is up for another four years in the Oval Office, though many in interviews pledged to stick with him as the presumptive nominee.
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Alabama is scheduled to carry out its third execution of 2024 next week. A fourth is planned in September.
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Via @jemmakstephenson.bsky.social: “Please know how grateful my family and I are for everyone who has reached out to offer help and concern,” Gudger, injured in a jet ski accident last week, wrote in a statement. alabamareflector.com/briefs/alaba... #alpolitics
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A bill filed for next year's Alabama legislative session would allow the governor and attorney general to take over local police departments. Editor @brianlyman.bsky.social writes that lawmakers might want to think about the political consequences of that.
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Via @jemmakstephenson.bsky.social: Alabama’s two education budget chairs said last week they’re still waiting on the next steps for the work on a potential new education funding formula for the state.
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Sen. Garlan Gudger, R-Cullman, underwent a “brief surgical procedure” Thursday to address internal bleeding after a jet ski accident. A news release said the two-term senator's "prognosis for recovery was good." alabamareflector.com/briefs/alaba... #alpolitics
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Via @jemmakstephenson.bsky.social : Alabama State Superintendent Eric Mackey said Wednesday that the state Department of Education’s computer systems had been breached last month and that students and employees of the department may have been affected.
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Via @alander.bsky.social: Alabama state officials argued in a motion Monday that inmates and civil rights groups accusing DOC of employing slave labor did not pursue all available administrative channels and improperly split their claims across multiple lawsuits.
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Via @jemmakstephenson.bsky.social: Attorneys for transgender youth and their families, who are seeking to overturn Alabama's ban, asked for the stay after the U.S. Supreme Court took up a similar case in Tennessee.
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A Montgomery circuit court judge Tuesday said he would extend a hold on medical cannabis licensing in Alabama, further extending a delay in the program, approved by the Legislature in 2021.
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“The world Defendants attempt to portray—one of rampant on-demand sterilization, nefarious organizations pushing unsafe treatment to serve political ends, and where transgender youth are not actually transgender—does not exist,” the DOJ wrote in opposition to a Alabama attorney general's motion.
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The rule would require employers to monitor workers’ heat exposure, provide cool-down areas and take mandatory cool-down breaks.
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The Autauga-Prattville Library Board of Trustees, facing controversy and litigation over its policies on book removal, passed a resolution last week declaring the board would have the final say on what books could be displayed.
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“This nation was founded on the principle that there are no kings in America,” Biden said. “Each of us is equal before the law. No one — no one — is above the law, not even the president of the United States.”
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Via @alander.bsky.social: About 370,000 Alabamians were removed from Medicaid in the 10 months after federal restrictions on disenrollment expired earlier this year, according to an estimate from KFF, a health policy research and news organization.
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My column this week. Some Independence Day-thoughts on who we need to thank for our freedom, after a visit to EJI’s monument to the victims of slavery.
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Via @jemmakstephenson.bsky.social: Whether or not Alabama lawmakers follow Louisiana and mandate Ten Commandments displays in public schools, old rulings on the displays are on "shaky ground," according to experts.
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Via @alander.bsky.social: The attorneys Friday acknowledged a concern on how Judge Liles C. Burke would rule in the case, but said other factors weighed more in their decision to withdraw an initial lawsuit.
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Via @alander.bsky.social: The attorneys Friday acknowledged a concern on how Judge Liles C. Burke would rule in the case, but said other factors weighed more in their decision to withdraw an initial lawsuit.
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Via @kelciemmorris.bsky.social: The Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling remands a case about emergency abortions in Idaho back to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for now.
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The final part of our profile of Diane Derzis. The Dobbs decision ended federal abortion rights protections and closed a clinic in Jackson, Mississippi. It reopened later that year in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Here's how Derzis and Shannon Brewer (seen in the photo) did it.
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Part 3 of our series on Diane Derzis. What it meant to own and operate Jackson Women's Medical Organization -- the center of the 2022 Dobbs decision striking down federal abortion rights -- and what happened when the legal battles began. alabamareflector.com/2024/06/26/f...
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Via @alander.bsky.social: A federal judge Monday began a hearing on allegations of judge shopping in Alabama’s gender-affirming care lawsuit by closely questioning two of 11 lawyers facing accusations.
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Part 2 of our series on Diane Derzis' life in abortion care. After suffering burnout from running abortion clinics in the 1980s and 1990s, Diane Derzis took an opportunity to run Birmingham's New Woman All Women Health Clinic. In 1998, a terrorist attacked it. alabamareflector.com/2024/06/25/f...
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Alabama lawmakers have always found career safety in shifting to the right. Editor @brianlyman.bsky.social writes that political expediency like that could put the future of in vitro fertilization in jeopardy.
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Diane Derzis began working in abortion clinics a few years after Roe v. Wade. A clinic she co-owned was at the center of the Dobbs decision, which ended federal abortion rights protections. In Part 1 of this profile, we look at her early work providing abortion care.
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Via @jemmakstephenson.bsky.social: The judge overseeing a case over Alabama’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors has required plaintiffs’ attorneys to turn over any public statements related to allegations that the attorneys engaged in judge shopping. alabamareflector.com/2024/06/21/f...
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In an 8-1 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that “our Nation’s firearm laws have included provisions preventing individuals who threaten physical harm to others from misusing firearms.” Justice Clarence Thomas dissented.
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Via @alander.bsky.social : U.S. District Judge Corey L. Maze wrote that the plaintiffs, who included six Black inmates, had failed to establish that a “racially discriminatory intent or purpose” motivated a 2019 change to parole standards.
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Two groups opposed to new Alabama public library rules that they say unconstitutionally restrict books have asked state legislators to intervene.
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The Equal Justice Initiative Wednesday formally dedicated a memorial in Montgomery to survivors of slavery. Inscribed on it are 122,000 surnames of families that were held in bondage.
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An Alabama commission erecting statues of Rosa Parks and Helen Keller at the State Capitol has a unique challenge: summarize each woman's life on a plaque in 70 words or less.
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Via @jemmakstephenson.bsky.social : In a 31-page filing Monday, attorneys challenging new Alabama restrictions on some absentee ballot assistance argued that voting assistance is protected by the First Amendment.
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Via @jemmakstephenson.bsky.social: A federal judge has asked attorneys for a group of transgender families to turn over a document used to prepare attorneys for questions amid allegations of judge-shopping.
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Via @alander.bsky.social: Polls are open for today's special Alabama House election in House District 52 in Birmingham. Here's a guide to the race.
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The Biden administration Tuesday will announce deportation protections for long-term undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens, along with quicker approval of work permits for those in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
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The state of Alabama Thursday executed Jamie Ray Mills, 50, who was convicted of and sentenced to death for the murders of Floyd and Vera Hill in Guin in 2004. It was the second execution carried out by Alabama this year.
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Breaking via Ashley Murray: Former President Donald Trump now faces penalties ranging from probation to up to four years in prison for each charge of falsifying business records in the first degree. It is unclear when sentencing will take place.
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Via @alander.bsky.social: Alabama in 2022 had over $113 million in unspent money in its Temporary Aid of Needy Families (TANF) funds, despite a growing need and a monthly benefit that (until last year) had not been raised since 2002.
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Alabama's 2025 General Fund is set to be the largest in state history. But most of that funding is going to Medicaid and Corrections, whose combined share of the budget has risen from a third in 2002 to over half today.
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Via @jemmakstephenson.bsky.social: A federal judge Thursday weighed arguments on whether to move to a trial over Alabama’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for individuals under the age of 19.
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Birmingham-Southern College alum Conner Hayes eulogizes the school -- closing down next week -- as "a sacred site ... where life’s foundational, formative experiences occurred over a vast, vibrant multi-generational tapestry stretching over 168 years."
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The Southern Poverty Law Center is looking to invest more money in advocacy training as the rightward shift of the federal courts has complicated its traditional approach to civil rights activism.
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Members of the Alabama Legislature's education budget committees Tuesday began consideration of shifting to a new funding model aimed at better addressing a school's needs.
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Trump later added that “things really do have a lot to do with the states. And some states are going to have different policies than others.” That comment came just after being asked if he “may want to support some restrictions, like the morning-after pill or something?”
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Via @jemmakstephenson.bsky.social: The Alabama House of Representatives passed a bill to allow some undocumented immigrants to attend the state's public colleges and universities. The Senate didn't. Here's why.
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Via @alander.bsky.social: Applications to OB-GYN residency programs in Alabama dropped over 20% after the state's effective abortion ban went into effect, and other fields saw similar declines
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