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Opposing lawyers are battling in court over a new Alabama law that makes it illegal for outside parties to deliver or prefill someone’s absentee ballot application. A federal judge heard arguments Wednesday over a lawsuit challenging the new restrictions.

On Friday, April 26, Montgomery Mayor Steven L. Reed will be sworn in as president of the African American Mayors Association (AAMA), the nation’s only organization exclusively representing Black mayors in the United States. Reed, who is currently the organization’s 1st Vice President, will lead the organization through the 2024 presidential elections and the start of the 119th Congress.

Alabama lawmakers advanced legislation to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state's November ballot, mirroring accommodations made four years ago for then-President Donald Trump. Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman, and Abraham Lincoln were all left off Alabama’s President Ballot.

An Alabama legislator was arrested on felony voter fraud charges accusing him of voting in a district where he did not live. Republican State House member David Cole of Huntsville was arrested on charges of voting in an unauthorized location, according to Madison County Jail records.

Public sector employees have suffered as many cuts as anyone in this economic downturn, but The Nation's Bryce Covert says keeping firefighters, teachers and the like in their jobs is not only good economic policy, it should be good politics too.