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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 took over the cases against Digmon and the others. Last April, a state judge granted Assistant Attorney General Thomas Govan Jr.'s motion to dismiss all of ...
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 ...
After Smith’s execution, the Alabama attorney general’s office said the total number of people waiting to be put to death in the state was 165. Smith wasn’t the first person Judge Tompkins ...
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.
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.
A coalition of voting rights groups on Friday sued the Alabama secretary of state and attorney general over a policy they say illegally targets naturalized citizens to keep them from voting in the ...
The Supreme Court of Alabama has exclusive jurisdiction over all appeals where the amount in controversy exceeds $50,000, as well as appeals from the Alabama Public Service Commission. The chief justice is the administrative head of the state's judicial system. The Supreme Court may make rules governing administration, practice, and procedure ...