Alabama Political Reporter: Alabama Solicitor General Edmund LaCour secures federal judge role
This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on October 30, 2025.
LaCour’s appointment was met with a letter of opposition sent to Senate Judiciary Chair Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, from the progressive judicial advocacy group, Alliance for Justice.
The letter highlighted LaCour’s defense of Alabama’s 2021 electoral map, as well as Alabama’s law criminalizing doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors and the Alabama Human Life Protection Act, which banned abortions in the state under most conditions.
The letter also took aim at LaCour’s defense of Alabama in the due process and civil forfeiture case Culley v. Marshall, and his track record on minimum wage protections, which includes defending the state of Alabama against a racial discrimination challenge against the Alabama Minimum Wage and Right to Work Act, and representing a group of businesses challenging Seattle’s minimum wage law in 2016.
“On issue after issue, LaCour has elevated the interests of the powerful over the rights of ordinary people, particularly Black voters, women, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ communities,” Alliance for Justice President Rachel Rossi wrote. “His advocacy against wage protections and in favor of abusive policing practices further underscores the same point: The law, in his hands, is a weapon to fortify power, not a shield to protect the vulnerable.”