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XIV. J. E. B. v. Alabama ex rel. T. B., 511 U.S. 127 (1994), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States holding that peremptory challenges based solely on a prospective juror's sex are unconstitutional. [1] J.E.B. extended the court's existing precedent in Batson v. Kentucky (1986), which found race-based peremptory ...
Kay Ellen Ivey (/ ˈaɪvi / EYE-vee; [2] born October 15, 1944) is an American politician who is the 54th governor of Alabama, serving since 2017. Originally a conservative Southern Democrat, Ivey became a member of the Republican Party in 2002. She was the 38th Alabama state treasurer from 2003 to 2011 and the 30th lieutenant governor of ...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance are facing off Tuesday night for this cycle’s sole vice presidential debate in New York City. Follow CNN’s fact checks throughout the night.
Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), [2] was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that mandatory sentences of life without the possibility of parole are unconstitutional for juvenile offenders. [3][4] The ruling applied even to those persons who had committed murder as a juvenile, extending beyond Graham v.
A Kansas House committee held a hearing earlier this month on the child support proposal, and a bill to allow prospective parents to claim the state's $2,250 dependent income tax deduction before ...
In North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper said there were two storm-related deaths. A 4-year-old child was killed in a car crash during heavy rain in Catawba County just after 8 a.m. ET, the North ...
The Governor is the chief executive of the state's government. The governor is responsible for upholding the Alabama Constitution and executing state law. The governor is elected by popular election every four years. The constitution limits the governor to two consecutive terms, but there is no limit on the total number of terms one may serve ...
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) is a non-profit organization, based in Montgomery, Alabama, that provides legal representation to prisoners who may have been wrongly convicted of crimes, poor prisoners without effective representation, and others who may have been denied a fair trial. [1] It guarantees the defense of anyone in Alabama in a ...