A similar effort to ban forced convict labor in Louisiana was soundly defeated with roughly two-thirds voting against.
4 US States Vote to Ban Forced Prison Labor
Tag: Alabama
US Supreme Court May Legalize Election Theft
Marjorie Cohn warns that the rightward-veering Supreme Court may continue demolishing the Voting Rights Act.
Roy Moore and the Triumph of Partisanship
Partisanship has reached such extremes in U.S. politics that Republicans are prepared to brush aside multiple allegations that Roy Moore preyed on teen-age girls to keep a Democrat from winning in Alabama, writes Michael Winship.