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Alabama
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 27 stories to Alabama since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Alabama.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Alabama
10 storiesLouisiana, Arkansas and Alabama sue California, New York and Massachusetts at the Supreme Court to void shield laws protecting providers who mail abortion pills.
Separate suit names 30 providers
Trump administration returns to the Supreme Court a third time in 6 weeks over its mail-ballot restrictions, filing on a Sunday 2 days after North Carolina began mailing ballots.
Second appeal since Thursday, first withdrawn
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to unblock Postal Service mail-ballot rules that 23 states are fighting, one day before North Carolina begins mailing ballots.
Second such request in 6 weeks
Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana congressional map 6-3 and requires proof of intentional discrimination for future Voting Rights Act challenges.
Mississippi, Alabama signal swift action
Southern Poverty Law Center pleads not guilty to federal fraud charges over paying informants inside the KKK, a prosecution it calls political retribution.
Intelligence was shared with law enforcement
Supreme Court refuses to let Alabama execute Jeffery Lee by nitrogen gas, ending the state's push to proceed days after lower courts called the method unconstitutional.
Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch would have allowed
Appeals court upholds ruling that Alabama's nitrogen gas executions are unconstitutional, but the state says Thursday's execution is proceeding anyway.
State won't say which method it will use
Federal appeals court calls Alabama's nitrogen gas execution method intolerably cruel but lets Thursday's execution proceed.
Inmate requested firing squad instead
JAMA study finds miscarriage patients in 14 abortion-ban states get less effective treatment as doctors avoid mifepristone over criminal liability fears.
Expectant management raises hemorrhage risk
France demands release of 86-year-old widow of U.S. Army captain, held by ICE while her green card application was pending.
Detained day before inheritance-dispute hearing
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesSupreme Court refuses to let Postal Service enforce Trump's mail-ballot rule before November over two dissents, three weeks after clearing the executive order behind it.
Kavanaugh cites insufficient time to implement
Federal judge rules Alabama's nitrogen gas executions cruel and unusual two days before a scheduled execution, finding the inmate's firing squad alternative feasible.
Witnesses reported gasping in seven executions
5,000 rally in Montgomery and faith leaders march Edmund Pettus Bridge against southern Republican redistricting after Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act ruling.
5,000 fill Dexter Ave. rally
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