7. YouTube seems ready to meddle in the 2024 election, while Twitter’s Elon Musk is taking a different path and trying to get more conversation on controversial issues that the key players don’t seem willing to discuss. Some claim the conversation itself is beneath them, which is a sign of strength, apparently.
6. Alabama’s medical cannabis law is not off to a great start with the licensing process halted because of the scoring used in question and the lack of minority-owned businesses receiving licenses. The law required a quarter of the licenses to be issued to 51% minority-led businesses, but only 1 of the 21 awarded met that criteria.
5. School choice will return in future legislative sessions, according to Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl, “Over the last few years this issue has been becoming more and more important to voters.” Probably true, but there wasn’t even real vote this time and there was a massive budget surplus.
4. U.S. Rep. Barry Moore (R-Enterprise) says the House Judiciary Committee will hold the Department of Justice accountable for the weaponization of the DOJ. Moore believes the DOJ has targeted former President Donald Trump for quite some time and that continues today, “we’re looking back to originally Crossfire Hurricane, they used FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign, and we have assured the FBI kind of cleaned up their act, that they we’re doing better … and then when you look at this recent arrest of the president … It’s concerning for us when they tell us they’ve cleaned up their act and they continue to do the same thing.”
3. U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Saks), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, is calling out “untruths” from the Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin about the withdrawal from Afghanistan and said the memo turned over to his committee “propounds outright untruths.” The committee chairman highlights that redactions are now keeping them from doing their oversight job, which seems to be a constant narrative.
2. In a move that is sure to make his lawyers irate, President Donald Trump did an interview with Fox News’ Brett Baier they focused on the charges surrounding Trump’s classified documents case. Baier asked, “Why not just hand them over, then?”, to which Trump claimed he was too busy to return them, but has also suggested they were planted, and it has been suggested in the past that he packed them himself.
1. President Joe Biden himself is now foolishly taking shots at U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) for daring to suggest that the Pentagon follow longstanding law that forbids the federal government from funding abortions. Biden called Tuberville, “a former football coach from Alabama” and added that the hold was, “just bizarre. I don’t remember it happening before, and I’ve been around.”
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Dale Jackson is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 7-11 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.
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