Doug Jones joins bipartisan group of Senators standing up to Trump tariffs on aluminum and steel – Sample banner ad: Your company could have an ad on this site like this. Click here to see how — > By Glynn Wilson – Trump’s Twitter Trade policies are already costing jobs and plant closures in the…
Southern Politics
Alabama People Support the President, but May Be Hardest Hit by Trump’s Twitter Trade War
Alabama Democrats Blame Democratic Party for Election Losses
U.S. Senator Doug Jones Reacts to President Trump’s Firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions
By Glynn Wilson – The forced resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions of Alabama by Donald Trump the day after the midterm elections and right after a contentious White House press conference has set off a firestorm of criticism in Washington and around the country and generated a host of anxiety in the legal community…
Senator Doug Jones of Alabama: A Beacon in a Dark Place
The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – A fragile nation, beacon to the world, is on the verge of cracking like a giant arctic ice sheet splitting in half due to warming seas. Meanwhile the lack of informed political leadership in America keeps us distracted by the high school beer drinking…
Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Could Cast Deciding Vote Against Trump Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh
Is Doug Jones Running for President in 2020? – “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” – Poverb By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room was described as “hell” last week by not only President Donald J. Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Brett Kavanaugh.…
It’s Time to Change the Culture of the American Way
Senator Doug Jones Calls for FBI Investigation in Sexual Assault Allegations Against Trump Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Charges of sexual assault have changed the political calculus in the Unites States Senate on conformation of President Donald J. Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court. The charges by a California college professor against Judge Brett Kavanaugh just add more fuel to the fire for Democrats who were…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones Introduces Legislation to Delay Trump’s Proposed Auto Tariffs
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Calling President Donald J. Trump’s proposed 25-percent tariff on imported cars, trucks and auto parts as a national security measure “an absurd way to look at this” in a conference call with reporters on Thursday, U.S. Senator Doug Jones is working with Republican Senators Lamar Alexander of Tennessee…
President Trump’s Trade War Casts Pall Over Global Economy, While Auto Tariffs Threaten Alabama Jobs
ANALYSIS – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald J. Trump’s insistence on fighting a trade war against the entire world all at once for political purposes is on the verge of casting a pall over the global economy that could depress global economic growth and result in the loss of American jobs…
U.S. Senator Doug Jones Proposes Legislation to Require Release of Government Records in Civil Rights Cold Cases
By Glynn Wilson — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Squeezing information out of the federal government has long been a problem for journalists, researchers, lawyers and the American public. But it has become even harder under the Trump administration, where factual information and real journalism don’t seem to matter to those in charge of the executive branch…
Key Republican Issue of Illegal Immigration Becomes a Winner for Democrats
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration’s plan to use illegal immigration as the cornerstone political issue in the midterm elections to try to get more Republicans elected to Congress blew up in its face this week. While Democrats were planning to focus on health care and expanding Medicaid, crying babies being…
Could the Outcome of the Midterm Elections Depend on Illegal Immigration Fight?
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Attorney General and former Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama went on the road recently to try to sell the Trump administration’s cruel and unusual policy of separating immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexican border to law enforcement officers and the country by quoting the Bible,…
Senate Democrats Push Medicaid Expansion as Midterm Elections Loom
By Glynn Wilson — WASHINGTON, D.C. — The word is coming out from Capitol Hill. While President Donald Trump and his coterie of converted Republicans push their agenda in this midterm election year, Democrats are pushing access to health care and Medicaid expansion in Washington and the states this summer as a centerpiece of their…
U.S. Senators Doug Jones, Lamar Alexander Push Back on Trump Trade Wars and Tariffs
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — You would have to go back to the 1920s and early ’30s to find a President of the United States willing to fight trade wars with other countries and express hostility to international trade agreements as Donald Trump seems intent on doing, it seems for domestic political points…
Low Voter Turnout by Democrats in Primary Election Does Not Bode Well for a Blue Wave in November
Alabama Senator Doug Jones to Vote Against Gina Haspel for CIA Director
By Glynn Wilson – While the New York Times and other news outlets are reporting that Gina Haspel, President Trump’s nominee to head the CIA, apparently may have the votes to secure Senate confirmation even though she was directly involved in the Bush administration’s overseas torture program during the Iraq war, one Alabama senator will…
Buck’s Pocket State Park Campground Could Reopen in the Fall
U.S. Senator Doug Jones Questions HUD Secretary Ben Carson on Proposed Budget Cuts
By Glynn Wilson – The Trump administration is threatening to cut $6 billion from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s budget in 2018, eliminating block grants for water and sewer projects in poor, minority areas in states, including Alabama’s Black Belt, according to a preliminary budget proposal obtained by the Washington Post. Some Democratic…
Senator Doug Jones Addresses Solutions to Gun Violence in Maiden Floor Speech
By Glynn Wilson – Alabama’s new United States Senator Doug Jones chose the raging issue of gun violence Wednesday as the central topic for his first speech on the Senate floor since his election in December. And while he will be criticized from the right and the left for some of what he said, mainstream…