President Trump’s approval rating hovers near 40 percent. Polls of the generic congressional vote show Democrats leading by eight points. Historically, those conditions predict Democratic gains of 20-30 seats in the House of Representatives and four to five seats in the Senate in 2018. Democrats have been openly optimistic about winning the 24 seats they…
Arch-conservative former judge Roy Moore won Alabama’s Republican Senate nomination Tuesday over incumbent Luther Strange. Both President Trump and Vice President Pence had campaigned for Strange and a Mitch McConnell-aligned super PAC had spent millions of dollars to help the senator, but to no avail. “While we were honored to have fought hard for Big…
MONTGOMERY, AL – The Heart of Dixie has grown colder today. This afternoon, the Alabama House of Representatives passed HB24, deceptively named the Alabama Child Placing Agency Inclusion Act, on a 87-0 vote with 6 abstaining. The bill now heads to Governor Kay Ivey’s desk. HB24 would create a broad license to discriminate in the…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Tuesday, the Alabama State Senate and Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh passed the anti-LGBTQ H.B. 24. HRC Alabama has called upon Gov. Kay Ivey to not sign this bill, which would most harm the children in Alabama’s child welfare system. The bill, deceptively titled the “Child Placing Agency Inclusion Act,” would…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Friday, the Alabama House of Representatives advanced the discriminatory H.B. 24 to the Alabama Senate with a 60-14 vote. The bill, deceptively titled the “Child Placing Agency Inclusion Act,” would enshrine taxpayer-funded discrimination into Alabama law by allowing state-funded and licensed adoption and foster care agencies to reject prospective LGBTQ adoptive or…
Following yesterdays Senate vote to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General, LGBT and civil rights groups were quick to condemn his confirmation. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) said that Donald Trump’s choice of Jeff Sessions to lead the United States Department of Justice places civil rights and equality in jeopardy. “It’s deeply disturbing…
WASHINGTON — Ahead of this week’s confirmation of President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for United States Attorney General, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), released a report detailing Jeff Sessions’ alarming record on LGBTQ equality. The report was delivered to Members of Congress with an attached letter from Chad Griffin, President of the Human Rights Campaign, calling…
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced today that its new national legal director, David Cole, will testify at Sen. Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing for attorney general Jan. 11. The ACLU is nonpartisan, and as a matter of longstanding policy does not support or oppose nominees for federal office. As a result, the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Jeff Sessions has supplemented his original Dec. 9 Senate Judiciary Questionnaire (SJQ)—admitting that he had initially omitted hundreds of items—but there are still dramatic gaps in his record, according to a new report compiled by the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, People For the American Way, and Alliance for Justice. Fully…
President-elect Donald Trump has offered Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions the position of attorney general, the nation’s top law enforcement officer. Sessions, an early Trump backer, is an immigration hard-liner who has been in the Senate since 1997 and previously served as attorney general for the state of Alabama. In 1986 Sessions was rejected as a…
