Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall

The FBI and State investigators are asking the public's help in trying to find the person who placed an explosive device outside the Alabama attorney general's office.

A federal judge and the U.S. Department of Justice this week said that states are going too far by trying to block people from helping others cross state lines for abortion.

The Alabama attorney general's office said that it opposes all three congressional maps proposed by a special master as federal judges begin drawing new districts. The plaintiffs, who won before the U.S. Supreme Court in the redistricting case, wrote that two of the proposed plans are acceptable.

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall argued in a court filing that the state has the authority to bring conspiracy charges against groups who help women travel out of the state for an abortion. A federal judge has scheduled a Sept. 5 hearing in the case.

Alabama is seeking to become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen. The Alabama attorney general's office on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to set an execution date for death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58. The court filing indicated Alabama plans to put him to death by nitrogen hypoxia, an execution method that is authorized in three states but has never been used.

A federal appeals court ruled that Alabama can enforce a ban outlawing the use of medications to treat transgender children. That’s the second such appellate victory for gender-affirming care restrictions that have been adopted by a growing number of Republican-led states. The eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a judge's temporary injunction against enforcing the law. The judge has scheduled trial for April of next year on whether to permanently block the law.

Abortion is almost entirely illegal in Alabama, and abortion rights advocates are working to make sure those who help patients lawfully obtain the procedure out of state don’t face legal repercussions.

A federal appeals court on Friday said Alabama cannot execute a man with an IQ in the 70s, agreeing with a lower court's ruling that he is intellectually disabled and that his death sentence is unconstitutional.

The Associated Press reports Alabama Attorney General’s office turned over a letter that jurors in a murder case say they never saw. It’s been sixteen years since David Phillip Wilson was sentenced to death for killing a man during a 2004 burglary.

Alabama's attorney general will be running for a second term in 2022. Steve Marshall made the announcement on Thursday and pointed to his lawsuits against…