Unique Senate Nod: LaCour Becomes Alabama Federal Judge
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Alabama Solicitor General Edmund “Eddie” LaCour Jr. as a federal judge for the Northern District of Alabama. The confirmation vote concluded at 51-47, filling the vacancy left by the retirement of Chief Judge L. Scott Coogler. LaCour, who has served as Alabama’s Solicitor General since 2019, now steps into a…