Alabama Attorney General

An endorsement from President Donald Trump is worth a lot in Republican primaries. But can it propel a congressman past an insurgent outsider in Alabama? Is it worth more than $100 million in Georgia? Can it transform a candidate into a front-runner in Oklahoma? Trump has been at the center of this year’s midterm campaigns, and his influence will be tested in different ways Tuesday as four states and the District of Columbia hold primaries.

A lot of attention has been focused on an upcoming U.S. House primary in Alabama. The U.S. Supreme Court approved a voting map that a lower court ruled was discriminatory against blacks. That’s not the only thing on the “to do” list for the state’s voters. A Republican runoff is set for next Tuesday in the race for Alabama Attorney General. Candidates typically work to set themselves apart from each other.

Alabama will get a rematch between two high-profile nominees for governor while candidates of both major parties will head to runoff elections next month for an open U.S. Senate seat, and Attorney General.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is joining a group of 22 state attorneys general who back Louisiana in a lawsuit over abortion pills.The case challenges a Biden-era change that expanded access to the drug, mifepristone.

A judge was wrong to block part of an Alabama state law that makes it a felony to provide gifts or payments for helping with an absentee ballot application, state attorneys told an appeals court panel. The Alabama attorney general’s office asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to lift a judge’s preliminary injunction.

A federal appeals court ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990, saying Blacks were rejected from the jury during his trial. The Monday ruling from a three judge panel on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals means Michael Sockwell, 62, is eligible for a retrial.

Alabama Chief Justice Sarah Stewart used a new law to appoint a retired judge to handle the case against a man accused of the 2019 killing of a college student that drew national attention.

Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Jay Mitchell said he’s running for state attorney general. During his time on the bench, Mitchell is best known for writing a Supreme Court ruling saying frozen embryos are considered children under the state's Wrongful Death of Minor Act. The ruling allowed several couples to pursue wrongful death lawsuits after their frozen embryos were destroyed in a 2020 accident at a south Alabama storage facility.

The man who detonated a makeshift bomb outside of the Alabama attorney general’s office has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison. Kyle Calvert had plead guilty to the charge of malicious use of an explosive device. No people were hurt, and nearby buildings weren't damaged.

A federal appeals court says it will let the nation's third execution with nitrogen gas go forward this week. The 11th U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s decision to let Carey Dale Grayson's execution proceed Thursday night. Alabama began using nitrogen gas to execute people on death row earlier this year.