ATMORE, Ala. − Alabama executed James Edward Barber by lethal injection early Friday morning under new protocols − which included a longer window of time to access veins and perform the execution − after a divided US Supreme Court issued a decision just after midnight allowing the state to proceed.

Barber, 64, was convicted in 2003 of capital murder by a Madison County jury in the May 20, 2001, beating and stabbing death of 75-year-old Dorothy “Dottie” Epps of Harvest. Barber was also charged with robbery in the case. He was a handyman and former boyfriend of Epps’ daughter and

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron wants to retain the option to access the medical information of Kentuckians who leave the state for reproductive health care services, such as abortion and gender-affirming health care.

Cameron joined 18 Republican state attorneys general in co-signing a June 16 letter to the US Department of Health and Human Services, arguing that its rule change proposal to shield this patient information from officials in states that have banned or criminalized abortion and gender-affirming health care would “unlawfully interfere with states’ authority to enforce their laws and does not serve any legitimate need.”

The letter asks

OAKLAND, Calif. – Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price doubled down on a controversial statement released by her office earlier this week, comparing the

The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office filed a lawsuit on Friday against six out-of-state liquor distribution companies it said delivered liquor to Tennessee addresses without the appropriate licenses.

The companies are Bottle Buzz, Cask Cartel, The Liquor Bros, My Bev Store, Prime Time Liquor and Wooden Cork, all of which run websites where shoppers can order alcohol for delivery.

According to the lawsuit, there’s no license that allows out-of-state companies to ship liquors directly to Tennessee consumers. Doing so is a Class E felony, the lawsuit says.

The specific allegations in the lawsuit were the result of an investigation by undercover

It’s never fun to stand up to a president in your own party. However, it’s often necessary to prevent your side from making mistakes they will come to regret. And Democratic leadership is now badly needed to help save the Biden administration from committing an egregious blunder that would harm millions of vulnerable Americans who rely on Medicaid for their health care.

In 2020, I joined Republican colleagues in writing to President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services to express our opposition to a proposed Medicaid Fiscal Accountability regulation. We wrote that the rule could result in “total

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in Lepper v. Scordinothe Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of selective enforcement and class-of-one equal protection claims involving a treehouse that was built without a permit.

The court first explained that on a selective enforcement claim, a plaintiff must show that “(1) the person, compared with others similarly situated, was selectively treated, and (2) the selective treatment was motivated by an intention to discriminate on the basis of impermissible considerations, such as race or religion, to punish or inhibit the exercise of constitutional rights, or by a malicious

Michael Cohen, the former longtime personal attorney and fixer to Donald Trump, said Walt Nauta’s not guilty plea in the classified documents case was a “bad decision.”

“He believes that by being the Trumpiest Trumper that Donald will protect him” and “not throw him under the bus,” Cohen told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Thursday.

But all Nauta has to do is look at what happened to others who were once in Trump’s close orbit ― including Cohen himself, who is going to court on Friday in an ongoing case involving his own legal fees.

“History repeats itself, and in this