Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has progressed calls for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling disallowing the death penalty for child sexual abuse to be overturned.

In a Thursday press release, Marshall highlighted his support for a letter sent to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House Counsel Dave Warrington last month, calling for state AGs and legislatures, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice, to pursue actions to push the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its 2008 ruling in Louisiana v. Kennedy.

The letter, led by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, was signed by Marshall and a total of 15 Republican state attorneys general.

“In one of the first acts of his second term, President Trump instructed the Department of Justice to ‘take all appropriate action to seek the o

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