Alabama Liberal

  I think one positive thing about the Trump Federalist Society break-up is that Trump will nominate some really incompetent nominees for the federal bench. It will be too much for some Senators, and the nominations will languish in committee. It takes a special breed of incompetence for a judicial nominee to fail in the Senate controlled by the President’s own party. However, we are about to see that occur with regularity. We are seeing the first instance of this in the nomination of Emil Bove to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Bove previously served as an attorney on the legal team in the People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump, serving as second chair for the defendant . It should be noted that Donald Trump might lack a lot of vacancies to fill on the federal bench due to the sheer number of jurists Joe Biden and he has filled during their four-year terms.

  Trump and his band of thugs hate everything about the American experiment. It’s also a perfect example of those who view America as a place rather than an idea. It’s truly a wicked and perverse ideology that has infected our politics over the past decade. I will have more to post in the coming days as I flush my thoughts out better. It’s hard to believe that in less than a month, the tenth anniversary of one of the most consequential days in American political history occurred. 

 From time to time, I will share my reading list with everyone. Here is the 2024 edition of my reading list. I hope that some of you take recommendations from this list and find a great read. My five top recommendations are The Barn, The Quiet Damage, The Fall of Roe, Race Against Time, and Coming Out Republican.  2024 Book List  1.) Swamp Monsters  2.) The glory and the dream 3.)Delaying the Dream  4.) Lincoln’s Melancholy  5.)JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century 1917-1956 6.) Gun Country  7.) Nixon Californias Native Son 8.) On this day in Politics  9.) Trials of Harry S. Truman 10.) 1932 11.) Our ancient faith  12.) Hitler’s American Friends  13.) The Presidents 14.) Life After Power  15.) Tyranny of the Minority  16.) What the Heck are you up to Mr. President 17.) The American Dream: A cultural history 18.) Why White Liberals Fail 19.) This America 20.) Why Congress? 21.) April 4, 1968 22.) The Achilles Trap 23.) Burn...

Hello everyone, from time to time I will share my weekly reading list of news stories that I find interesting or infuriating. I will admit most of the stories this week are the ones that will make you extremely angry if you are like me, a liberal, or are a decent person and have compassion. It includes three stories in which the cruelty is the point, several about the party of “smaller government” taking away freedoms, two stories about out-in-the-open corruption from the “most transparent” White House in history, and of course, will talk about the hell that likely awaits Alabama voters in 2026.  Whenever you see a story about right-wing cruelty, understand the cruelty is the point.  https://www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-mississippi-father-at-his-citizenship-hearing-threatening-deportation/ https://abcnews.go.com/US/georgia-teen-detained-ice-after-mistaken-arrest-detention/story?id=122113802 https://apnews.com/article/harvard-trump-foreign-student-457d07268fba9c1f6f...

The 2026 election season in Alabama already promised to be exciting. The top three constitutional line offices open due to the incumbents being termed out. The other statewide constitutional office holders might decide to seek a promotion, so it is very possible that come January 2027, it could feature all new office holders on Goat Hill in Montgomery. The action in Alabama politics was going to be at the statewide level, and the federal elections would be anticlimactic. That has changed in a big way. The announcement today by Lt. Governor Will Ainsworth that he will be leaving elected office at the end of term, along with reporting by Jake Sherman and Andrew Desiderio, confirms that Senator Tommy Tuberville will run for governor instead of running for reelection to the Senate. The decision will cause a primary for an open Senate seat and possibly multiple House seats as several members of the House of Representatives have been mentioned as possible candidates to succeed Tuberville in ...

A little something different today. Last May, I read Joe Posnanski’s great book, The Baseball 100. So I decided to make my own list of the 100 greatest baseball players of all time. I now present that list.    Aaron Hank Ruth Babe Bonds Barry Cobb Ty Gehrig Lou Gibson Josh Mays Willie Musial Stan Williams Ted Paige Satchel Wagner Honus Mantle Mickey Johnson Walter Rodriguez Alex Hornsby Rogers Robinson Frank Schmidt Mike Morgan Joe Bench Johnny Henderson Rickey Clemente Roberto Pujols Albert Charleston Oscar Johnson Randy Maddux Greg Martínez Pedro Foxx Jimmie Ott Mel Brett George Young Cy Berra Yogi McCovey Willie Kershaw Clayton Robinson Brooks Stargell Willie Perry Gaylord Jenkins Ferguson Pérez Tony Alomar Roberto Alexander Grover Cleveland  Killebrew Harmon Robinson Jackie Ford Whitey Snider Duke Cochrane Mickey Grove Lefty Palmeiro Rafael Bonds Bobby Ryan Nolan Lajoie Nap Jackson Reggie Ripken Jr. Cal Mathews Eddie Gibson Bob Carlton Steve Dimaggio Joe Griffey Jr. K...