7. More election charges, as another day of legal issues for former President Donald Trump takes place in a courtroom in New York City and in Washington, D.C., in this instance Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator as 11 individuals in Arizona facing charges related to submitting false elector certificates. The charges are linked to an alleged scheme in which fake electors purportedly cast votes for Donald Trump, but it is far more complicated than that. They are people who offered an alternate slate of electors if the state’s votes were overturned and this is more lawfare.
6. People are very happy with Gov. Kay Ivey and she has been ranked as the fifth most-popular governor in the nation, with a 64% approval rating and 30% offering an unfavorable opinion. Four of the top 5 popular governors are Republicans with Democrat Andy Beshear of Kentucky finishing fourth and the least popular governor in the nation is Oregon Democrat Tim Kotek.
5. Abortion views have changed, with a Quinnipiac University poll showing 66% of Americans now supporting legal abortion in some or all cases, the highest level of support ever recorded by the poll’s two-decade history, giving Democrats rocket fuel to continue obsessing over this issue. To further drive this point home, Arizona has now changed course and repealed the 1864 law banning all abortions and trying to revert to a reasonable 15-week ban.
4. The Alabama House Judiciary Committee has moved a bill that would charge parents with a crime if a kid brings an unsecured firearm to school and requires the parent to “store a firearm in his or her possession or under his or her control in a manner that reasonably secures the firearm from unauthorized or unlawful access by a minor.” Strangely, the proposed crime would be a Class A misdemeanor and securing the gun could mean trigger locks or locking them in locked boxes or gun safes that require a key, combination, or fingerprint to open
3. The Laken Riley Act has moved out of the House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee and would allow/require local officials to work with the federal government and keep track of illegal immigrants committing crimes in Alabama; it does not allow for targeting of individuals who aren’t accused of committing crimes. The namesake of the bill was killed by Jose Antonio Ibarra, a 26-year-old undocumented immigrant from Venezuela, who, according to police, abducted her while she was jogging on the UGA campus.
2. Alabama’s U.S. Sens. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn), are explaining their positions on $95 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Britt voted for an “imperfect bill” that she says was needed to keep America safe while Tuberville did not vote. But, on the Senate floor said, “The war in Ukraine is at a stalemate. Pouring MORE MONEY into Ukraine’s coffers will only prolong the conflict and lead to more loss of life.” Some good news for Alabama comes from the passage of the bill – missiles from Alabama are going to Ukraine, a fact highlighted by President Joe Biden himself when he noted “Javelins made in Alabama” will be used to restock our stockpile after we ship it to Ukraine.
1. College protests spread from Columbia to Texas. They want Palestine to be free but while most colleges cave to these clowns, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott takes a different tack by calling for the mob to be expelled, and even USC in California has cops taking batons to the mob. Auburn’s head basketball coach Bruce Pearl is calling all of this out and summarizing it better than most politicians: “Once again, please take these people at their word: ‘We will seize our universities and force the administration to divest, for the people of Gaza!’ Hamas and the people of Gaza attacked Israel, murdered 1,200 and still hold hundreds of innocent hostage.”
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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN and from 10-11 a.m. on Talk 99.5 and News Radio 1440, with a rebroadcast Talk Radio 103.9 FM/730AM WUMP from 3-4 p.m.
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