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9 Nov 2015, 6:19 am by Jim Sedor
Lobbying Texas: “Appeals Court Backs Ethics Commission over Activist” by Aman Batheja for Texas Tribune Campaign Finance “Fla. man who landed gyrocopter at Capitol to plead guilty to lesser charge” by Spencer Hsu for Washington Post Florida: “Hialeah Mayor Tries to Pay County’s $4K Ethics Fine in Pennies” by Brenda Medina for Miami Herald New York: “Backed by Single, Untraceable Out-of-State Donor, Reform Party Scores Win” by Chris Bragg… [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 2:15 pm
Despite state officials’ quick denial that the closing of 31 Alabama DMVs has nothing to do with race, it is a fact that the closures – mostly in poor, majority black counties – disproportionately hurts Black voters. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 7:50 am by Jim Sedor
” by Tina Nguyen for Vanity Fair “Sandy Murman Announces Effort to Clean Up Special Interests’ Influence in County Government” by Staff  for SaintPetersBlog Campaign Finance “The Campaign-Finance Activist Who Thinks We Need More Money in Politics, Not Less” by Marin Cogan for New York Magazine “Scott Walker’s Demise Shows Limits of ‘Super PAC’ Money Model” by Nicholas Confessore for New York Times Ethics “Hillary… [read post]
17 Sep 2015, 7:24 am by Jim Sedor
” by Thomas Edsall for New York Times “Why Clinton’s Big Campaign Finance Proposal Could Lead to More Partisan Gridlock” by Max Ehrenfreund for Washington Post “Donald Trump Is Target of Conservative Ad Campaign” by Nicholas Confessore and Alan Rappeport for New York Times Ethics “Across the Globe, a Growing Disillusionment with Democracy” by Roberto Foa and Yascha Mounk for New York Times Alabama: “Legal Defense Bill Draws… [read post]
4 Sep 2015, 5:22 am
In this photo taken on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore poses in front the the American flag, in Montgomery, Ala. [read post]
17 Aug 2015, 5:41 pm by Steven Cohen
Facts: This case (Colbert County Northwest Alabama Health Care Authority d/b/a Helen Keller Hospital v. [read post]
14 Aug 2015, 6:18 am by Jim Sedor
From the States and Municipalities: Alabama – Federal Court Upholds Alabama PAC-to-PAC Transfer Ban LawLegal Newsline – Shaun Zinck | Published: 8/6/2015 A federal court upheld the constitutionality of Alabama’s law that bans transferring money from one PAC to another. [read post]
6 Aug 2015, 9:47 am by Harold O'Grady
But the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, along with the reaction to the violence inflicted on voting-rights protesters marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in March 1965, prompted federal legislators to respond. [read post]
2 Jul 2015, 2:56 am by Andy Weisbecker
The Montgomery County Environmental Staff will continue to closely monitor food-handling operations. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 7:21 am by John A. Gallagher
 He practiced law for 5 years at a mid-sized Philadelphia firm, Harvey Pennington, before moving to the oldest form in Montgomery County, High Swartz, where his was a worked for 9 years, the last 7 during which he was a Partner.John A. [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 8:15 am
According to records from the Alabama Supreme Court, which recently weighed a change of venue request from one of the defendants, a tractor-trailer company, the case started with a disabled Ford Crown Victoria in the northbound lanes of Interstate 65 in Autauga County (where Montgomery is located). [read post]
28 May 2015, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
 According to the Montgomery Advertiser, in Prattville, Alabama last week, a Unitarian minister pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct charges and was sentenced to six months unsupervised probation and a $250 fine. [read post]
8 May 2015, 9:18 am by John Elwood
Alabama (holding that the Eighth Amendment prohibits juvenile homicide offenders from being sentenced to life without parole) applies retroactively, they should have just been holds for Montgomery v. [read post]
1 May 2015, 9:19 am by John Elwood
The Court has already granted cert. to answer the first question in Montgomery v. [read post]
30 Apr 2015, 7:40 am by Alfred Brophy
 And coming soon are papers on slaves and trusts in Petersburg, Virginina, Wilcox County, Alabama and Montgomery, Alabama.... [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 8:05 am by Maureen Johnston
Marion County Election Board, the evidentiary record establishes that the law substantially burdens the voting rights of hundreds of thousands of the state’s voters, and that the law does not advance a legitimate state interest; and (2) whether a state’s voter ID law violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act where the law disproportionately burdens and abridges the voting rights of African-American and Latino voters compared to White voters. [read post]
18 Mar 2015, 12:33 pm by Lyle Denniston
While he could, in that circumstance, ask the state court to lift its order, he said, that would cost money and result in delay, further complication, and the denial of declared constitutional rights to citizens of Montgomery County. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 4:00 am by Paul Horwitz
The speakers discussed its past, especially the civil rights activism--not least the famous Selma-to-Montgomery march, which will be commemorated this weekend across the country and in Selma itself--that helped bring about its passage; the current state of voting rights law, with panelists discussing, among other things, both the Shelby County decision and the pending Alabama Legislative Black Caucus case; and the uncertain future of voting rights. [read post]
25 Feb 2015, 12:08 am by rhapsodyinbooks
On this day in history, students from Alabama State College (a traditionally African American college in Montgomery, Alabama), stated an anti-segregation sit-in at a lunch counter in the Montgomery County Courthouse. [read post]