Tag Archives: Georgia

Jimmy Williams Former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case faced a setback on Thursday as a Fulton County Superior Court Judge, Scott McAfee, denied their bid to dismiss the charges on First Amendment grounds. In his 14-page ruling, Judge McAfee stated that while the …

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder The 2024 election season may further highlight contentious voter eligibility challenges and result in the enactment of new rules governing future elections in Georgia. Republicans in the Georgia Legislature passed a series of election rules as the 2024 session concluded last week that would change how …

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has dismissed six of 41 charges against Donald Trump and multiple co-defendants in the Georgia 2020 presidential election interference case. McAfee ruled Wednesday that the Fulton District Attorney’s office has not provided enough evidence to show six of the …

Jill Nolin, Georgia Recorder President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, separated by less than one hundred miles in Georgia, took turns attacking each other in front of friendly crowds Saturday as voting wraps up Tuesday in the battleground state. “You’re the reason we’re going to win,” Biden said …

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder A Fulton County judge on Friday said he plans to rule in the next two weeks on whether to remove District Attorney Fani Willis and her team of prosecutors from the high-profile 2020 election interference case that has been sidetracked by a series of contentious court …

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee is expected to decide in the coming days whether District Attorney Fani Willis can continue prosecuting the case against former President Donald Trump that charges him with leading a conspiracy to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election. McAfee’s decision will come …

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Thursday fiercely defended herself against allegations of prosecutorial misconduct while she had a romantic relationship with the special prosecutor she appointed to oversee the 2020 presidential election interference case. A surprise appearance in a Fulton County courtroom saw Willis …

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder On Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris called on Georgia voting rights advocates and elected officials to continue to fight for expanded access to the ballot box as the election cycle gears up for this November’s presidential election. Harris’ message was relayed during a roundtable discussion held …

Sarah Kallis, Georgia Recorder U.S. District Court Judge Steve Jones approved Georgia’s new congressional and legislative voting districts drawn by the state legislature. Jones found Thursday that all three maps added majority-Black opportunity districts in the areas he identified in October, when he found that the maps drawn by the …

Ross Williams, Georgia Recorder It’s back to Atlanta and back to the drawing board for Georgia legislators, who are set to gavel in for a special session Wednesday after a federal judge ruled the redistricting maps they produced in 2021 did not protect the rights of Black voters. Lawmakers will …

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday afternoon to consider prosecutors’ request to revoke Harrison Floyd’s bond for allegedly making incendiary statements about witnesses in the 2020 presidential election interference case. McAfee’s ruling will determine whether the ex-director of Black …

Jill Nolin, Georgia Recorder State officials will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that struck down Georgia’s 2021 political maps for diluting the voting strength of Black Georgians. But state officials will not try to block last week’s ruling while the appeal is being heard, according to a notice filed with …

Jill Nolin, Georgia Recorder A federal court judge has struck down Georgia’s political maps and blocked the state from using the maps for future elections. District Court Judge Steve C. Jones issued his ruling Thursday after holding a nearly two-week trial last month. Jones concluded that the GOP-drawn maps violate …

Jill Nolin, Georgia Recorder Attention has shifted back to the Fulton County courthouse after the Georgia Supreme Court rejected an argument that state lawmakers should have to pass abortion restrictions in the post-Roe world. A group of health care providers and abortion rights advocates had argued that parts of the …

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder Jenna Ellis, a former attorney for the Trump campaign in the 2020 presidential election, expressed regret on Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court after pleading guilty to making false statements about widespread voting fraud at a Georgia legislative hearing held several weeks after the 2020 election. …