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11 Feb 2015, 7:30 am by James Fox
  Lifting from the EJI web page:  EJI researchers documented 3959 racial terror lynchings of African Americans in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia between 1877 and 1950 – at least 700 more lynchings of black people in these states than previously reported in the most comprehensive work done on lynching to date. [read post]
11 Feb 2015, 6:02 am by Staci Zaretsky
Granade is the one who ruled the state's ban was unconstitutional in the first place. [read post]
11 Feb 2015, 5:01 am by Bradley McAllister
The request was made on behalf of more than 10 couples [Washington Post report] after a majority of probate judges in the state closed their offices on Monday, rather than issuing the licenses. [read post]
11 Feb 2015, 4:53 am by Amy Howe
Alabama, prohibiting life-without-parole sentences for juveniles convicted of murder, applies retroactively. [read post]
11 Feb 2015, 4:17 am by Timothy P. Flynn
Now, they're at it again; this time in the context of the same-sex civil rights movement.Chief Justice Roy Moore, from his re-acquired seat on the Alabama Supreme Court, has issued a letter to each of the state's 68 probate judges, instructing [warning] them to follow state law, and to disregard a federal ruling that struck Alabama's state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. [read post]
11 Feb 2015, 4:03 am by Patricia Salkin
Of the states, only Florida, Alabama and Delaware do not require unanimous verdicts in capital punishment cases. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 9:44 pm by Howard Wasserman
Mike Dorf's take on Roy Moore and the events in Alabama. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 7:25 pm
"Conflicts Mount Between State and Federal Courts; Strife in Alabama Comes as State Jurists Increasingly Ignore Opinions by U.S. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 7:09 pm by Kristen J. Mathews and Roger Cohen
Some state laws impose outside timeframes as short as 30 days. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 5:56 pm by Ernster the Virtual Library Cat
But compiling the hard statistical data, the victims and the when and where of the lynchings that took place in the United States, as well as the context of these events, has been a major challenge and an ongoing effort of historians and other scholars. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 2:18 pm by James
Fairfield, AL — Reports say that at least 19 people were aboard a MAX public transit bus in Fairfield, Alabama, on Monday, February 9,2015. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 11:00 am
And while frustrating, it is wrong to attribute this procedural reality to malfeasance by state officials. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 8:53 am by Howard Wasserman
Much of what is happening with same-sex marriage in Alabama right now is a product of a hierarchical and geographically dispersed judiciary. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 6:23 am by David Markus
Yes, according to Adam Liptak:The Supreme Court’s decision on Monday not to delay same-sex marriage in Alabama offered the strongest signal yet that gay rights advocates are likely to prevail in coming months in their decades-long quest to establish a nationwide constitutional right to same-sex marriage.The court's decision came with a blistering dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas, who criticized his fellow justices for looking “the other way” as another federal… [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 6:10 am by JD Hull
Rothman, a professor of Southern History at the University of Alabama, obviously has the chops to write this article. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 6:03 am
There are so many of these states, falling one by one, to the seemingly inevitable consequences of earlier constitutional law decisions. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 5:01 am by Amy Howe
Yesterday the Supreme Court denied Alabama’s request to stay a federal judge’s ruling striking down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 4:13 am by Howard Wasserman
Post); The Supreme Court Refused to Stop Gay Marriage in Alabama, But the State's Governor and Chief Justice Are Refusing to Listen (TNR); and Alabama's Roy Moore Defies Federal Order, Refuses to Allow Gay Marriage... [read post]