A crowd gathering at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 2025. The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday gutted a key portion of the Voting Rights Act, passed after law enforcement attacked civil rights marchers on the bridge on March 7, 1965, an event known as Bloody Sunday. (Anna Barrett/Alabama Reflector) Think of the millions of Alabamians who lived, loved and died under an apartheid government, a regime that lasted nearly a century, presiding over lynchings and mass disenfranchisement. And now think of the thousands of men and women who fought, who spent decades battling to bring democracy to Alabama. It’s a long list. There’s Jackson Giles , a postal worker making $500 a year who in 1903 took Alabama’s disenfranchisement all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. There’s Amelia Boynton Robinson , who registered Black voters in Selma in the 1930s. There’s Arthur Madison , who had his law license stripped for daring to organize voter registration efforts i...
Kevin Warsh, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for chair of the Federal Reserve, testifies during his Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 21, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve was one step closer to the job Wednesday after North Carolina Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis cast the deciding vote to advance Kevin Warsh’s nomination to the full Senate. Lawmakers on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs voted 13-11 along party lines to move Warsh to the next step. The potential turnover at the top of the Fed, which sets monetary policy, comes as Americans see higher costs hit their pocketbooks, particularly soaring prices at the gas pump, as the U.S.-Iran conflict disrupts worldwide energy supplies. Tillis had withheld his support until the Trump administration announc...