Alabama
Alabama Summer Enrollee Spotlight: Earl Little Jr.
After welcoming in a dozen early enrollees in January, the remainder of Alabama’s 2022 class is ready to reach on campus on the finish of the month. The Crimson Tide might be joined by 11 freshmen summer season arrivals in addition to junior school switch Miles Kitselman, who dedicated to Alabama earlier this month.
Over the following two weeks, BamaCentral will break down the arrivals one after the other. As we speak we proceed with SI99 cornerback Earl Little Jr.
The participant
The Florida native is an all-around good defensive again, and his velocity an athleticism make him greater than succesful to compete with the perfect in the way forward for school soccer. Little Jr. breaks on the ball with goal, and he’s energetic together with his palms on the proper time to power incompletions. He usually returns punts for American Heritage, utilizing his velocity to get the the sting for chunks of yards.
Little spent his highschool days at American Heritage Excessive in Plantation, Florida, the alma mater of former Alabama cornerback and present Denver Bronco Patrick Surtain II. At 6-foot, 175 kilos, Little makes use of each ounce of his measurement to make tackles within the open discipline. He makes receivers uncomfortable together with his aggressiveness and makes use of his instincts to play freely.
How he matches into Alabama
Little’s recreation may match rather well into the position that Malachi Moore and Brian Department at the moment fill, the position that Minkah Fitzpatrick made well-known: the star place. Little may very well be efficient on the star spot if he had been to decide on Alabama as a result of he’s a gifted athlete and has the flexibility to undercut routes and switch them into defensive touchdowns. He’s additionally aggressive sufficient to verify tackles and be efficient on occasional blitzes.
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Moreover, Little has greater than sufficient expertise in a standard nook spot and could have the chance to develop and progress as he learns to protect elite broad receivers within the Alabama program.
What to anticipate subsequent 12 months
Little has loads of competitors as all cornerback positions this 12 months and can unlikely see a lot enjoying time outdoors of late-game motion in rubbish time. Forward of him at star are the aforementioned Moore and Department, and together with his skillset lining him up with Kool-Help McKinstry and Khyree Jackson, that is numerous talent to beat as a real freshman.
There’s additionally LSU switch Eli Ricks, redshirt-freshman Terrion Arnold and redshirt-sophomore Jahquez Robinson forward of him on the different cornerback place, together with Jordan Battle, Daniel Wright and Kristian Story at sturdy security. Say what you need about any of Alabama’s positions this season, however the defensive backs may be probably the most proficient unit on the group.
It’s extremely unlikely that Little will make any form of affect his freshman season, and that is not on him. With all the expertise forward of him, he has a complete season to develop on the group and achieve expertise from these forward of him. That being mentioned, he possesses the skillset to have the ability to see some enjoying time, simply not as a starter and definitely to not begin the season.
Key quote
“Earl, I believe, is an impressive participant. He’s obtained actually good ft. He can run. He’s an instinctive participant. He performs with toughness. He was on the highest of our board all 12 months lengthy as one of many excellent corners within the nation. We’re excited to have him, we’re excited to get him. I believe he’s going to have an important alternative right here with us based mostly on the gamers that we have now coming again. He’s a really mature younger man. I believe that he’s sensible, and I believe these sort of guys form of can develop just a little extra rapidly. His dad was an important participant. His dad’s a coach. I believe generally that provides to a guys’ total data and talent to grasp ideas and develop confidence in how they should play. We’re enthusiastic about Earle Little.” — Nick Saban
Gallery: Earl Little Jr.
Earl Little Jr’s Instagram account, earllittlejr
The NAACP Alabama State Conference issued a statement on Tuesday saying the organization was “devastated by the high court ruling in [the] Trump immunity case.”
Benard Simelton, the organization’s president, said that “the Highest Court in the land has failed to protect its citizens from the most dangerous threat to our society, and this ruling, coming from the United States Supreme Court, violates the trust put in it by its citizens.”
Released on Monday, the Supreme Court’s decision on Trump v. United States stated that presidents have “presumptive immunity” for all official acts and “absolute immunity” for all official acts covered by presidents’ “exclusive authority.”
All six justices that signed onto the majority opinion in Trump v. United States were appointed by Republican presidents, with three appointed by Trump himself. Simelton told APR the NAACP wasn’t expecting the ruling because they “thought [the Supreme Court] would put their partisan views and ideology aside and rule based on the court of law.”
Alabama Republicans were quick to publicly support the ruling. On a Tuesday radio show, Congressman Jerry Carl said America was “really, really, really close to becoming a third-world country” before the Supreme Court gave presidents legal immunity.
However, liberal politicians and many legal experts have called the ruling both anti-democratic and potentially dangerous. Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, wrote that the ruling “is not what the Framers wanted” and “not what we should want either.”
“The NAACP does not support this decision,” Simelton said. “We think that presidents should be held accountable for their actions when they violate the law, when they’re in office and certainly when they’re out of office.”
NAACP president Derrick Johnson called the decision “a danger to not only the African American community, but a danger to our society as a whole.”
Simelton explained to APR that he personally feels “this ruling will determine how our democracy will move forward.”
“If we determine that the president of the United States is above the law then everything that we work for in a democracy will be undermined and essentially done away with,” he noted.
Simelton said he believes Americans need to elect both a president who respects everyone’s rights and the limits of their office and members of Congress who can keep an eye on the president and on the Supreme Court.
Pointing to the 22nd Amendment, which formalized the two term limit for the presidency, Simelton stated that America “didn’t want a person becoming an office and staying there forever” and it’s “the same thing with the Supreme Court.”
“I think it’s time to start looking at term limits for the Supreme Court,” he proffered.
Simelton is not the only person to call for more checks on the Supreme Court in the aftermath of its recent controversial rulings.
Senator Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, called it “disgraceful that Justices Thomas and Alito brazenly refused to recuse themselves from [Trump v. United States]” and said he’ll continue pushing for the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act.
Senators Tina Smith, D-Minnesota, and Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, were just two of the elected officials to call to expand the Supreme Court as Congress did in the 1860s and FDR threatened to in the 1930s.
If the Supreme Court is not expanded, the composition of the court will only change as justices retire or die while in office. Whichever presidential candidate is elected in November, in addition to their newfound immunity, will likely appoint one or more people to the Supreme Court to either weaken or entrench the current majority.
Alabama
Ivey awards $11.2 million to expand EV charging availability on Alabama's interstates – Yellowhammer News
Electric vehicles on Alabama’s interstates are about to receive a big boost thanks to $11.2 million in grant funding recently awarded by Governor Kay Ivey.
The money has been divided into fourteen individual grants. Thirteen will be going towards installing electric vehicle charging stations at fueling locations found across Alabama’s interstate system. The remaining grant will be given to Bevill State Community College in Jasper, to help train students on installation and the up keep of electric chargers.
“Having strategic electric vehicle charging stations across Alabama not only benefits EV drivers, but it also benefits those companies that produce electric vehicles, including many of them right here in Alabama, resulting in more high-paying jobs for Alabamians,” Governor Kay Ivey said. “This latest round of projects will provide added assurance that Alabamians and travelers to our state whose choose electric vehicles can travel those highways and know a charging station is within a reliable distance on their routes.”
ADECA Director Kenneth Boswell also emphasized the importance of the new funding.
“Alabama continues to make progress in installing charging systems for electric vehicles along major roadways,” Boswell said. “ADECA is pleased to support Gov. Ivey’s efforts to ensure that drivers who choose electric vehicles have access to dependable charging infrastructure as they travel the state.”
Grants awarded and project locations are:
Falkville
- $768,782 to Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores to install two dual-port chargers at its location at 64 East Pike Road, off Interstate 65.
Gadsden
- $331,807 to Silver Comet Energy Inc. to install four chargers at the RaceTrac Store, 1715 W. Grand Ave., near Interstate 59.
Hamilton
- $656,166 to Love’s Travel Stop & Country Stores to install two dual-port chargers at its location at Marion County Highway 35, adjacent to Interstate 22.
Jasper
- $2.4 million to Bevill State Community College in Jasper to expand its current HVAC Training Center to include workforce training resulting in certification for the installation, testing, operation and maintenance of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
- $788,921 to Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores to install two dual-port chargers its location at 83 Carl Cannon Blvd., near Interstate 22.
Heflin
- $656,166 to Love’s Travel Stop & Country Stores to install two dual-port chargers at its location at 6647 Alabama Highway 46, adjacent to Interstate 20.
Tuscaloosa-Cottondale
- $581,200 to BP Products North America Inc. to install three electric charging stations at Travel Centers of America Tuscaloosa, 3501 Buttermilk Road, near Interstate 20/59.
Eutaw
- $783,299 to Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores to install two dual-port chargers at its 7561 Mesopotamia Street location, adjacent to Interstate 20/59.
Clanton
- $660,909 to Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores to install two dual-port chargers at its store location at 300 Arby Drive, near Interstate 65.
Montgomery
- $581,200 to BP Products North America Inc. to install three chargers at Travel Centers of America Montgomery, 980 West South Blvd., adjacent to Interstate 65.
Fort Deposit
- $759,024 to Priester Retail Stores Inc. to install two dual-port chargers at it store, 80 Bishop Bottom Road, adjacent to Interstate 65.
Evergreen
- $867,238 to Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores to install two dual-port chargers at its location, 16101 U.S. Highway 84, near Interstate 65.
Atmore
- $725,864 to Poarch Band of Creek Indians to install two duo-port chargers at Creek Travel Plaza, 4740 Jack Springs Road, near Interstate 65.
Irvington
- $639,564 to Love’s Travel Stop & Country Stores to install two dual-port charges at its location at 8400 County Farm Road, near Interstate 10.
Austen Shipley is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @ShipleyAusten
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