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The attorney general (AG) also provides advisory opinions to local and state governments when questions arise about the constitutionality of proposed laws and regulations. It is the task of the attorney general to represent the state when questions arise concerning various criminal sentences including the death penalty.
The Alabama attorney general’s office and the state Department of Corrections are aware the unredacted documents were filed in Miller’s case but declined to comment.
Alabama is not the only state to have used judicial override in the past. The state modelled its policy after Florida’s in the 1970s. It was originally envisioned as a way to bar juries from ...
Sessions won, and from 1995 to 1997 Pryor served as Alabama's deputy attorney general. [7] When Sessions became a U.S. Senator in 1997, Alabama Governor Fob James made Pryor the state's Attorney General. [7] He was, at that time, the youngest state attorney general in the United States. Pryor was elected in 1998 and reelected in 2002.
Allen v. Milligan, 599 U. S. 1 (2023), [note 1] is a United States Supreme Court case related to redistricting under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). The appellees and respondents argued that Alabama's congressional districts discriminated against African-American voters.
The Alabama attorney general office wrote in a Friday court filing that the new law, which has a Oct. 1 effective date, cannot be used to block people from voting in the upcoming election, because ...
On February 5, 2019, the Office of the Attorney General of Alabama released a report of its review of the evidence regarding the police shooting. They determined that David Alexander; "Officer 1", as he was referred to in the report, "identified E.J. Bradford as an immediate deadly threat to innocent civilians and thus shot Bradford to ...
The court in its majority opinion nodded to a 2018 amendment to the Alabama constitution which provides protections for “the rights of the unborn child,” including the right to life.