Christina A Cassidy

August 31, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Government employees are being bombarded with threats even in normally quiet periods between elections, secretaries of state and experts warn. Some point to former President Donald Trump and his allies repeatedly and falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen and spreading conspiracy theories about election workers.

By Lindsay Whitehurst and Christina A. Cassidy | The Associated Press

6 minute read

June 06, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The justices are expected to rule in the coming weeks in a new case out of Alabama that could make it much more difficult for minority groups to sue over gerrymandered political maps that dilute their representation.

By Christina A. Cassidy and Ayanna Alexander | The Associated Press

11 minute read

June 25, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a statement that "the Biden Administration has been spreading lies about Georgia's election law for month. ... I look forward to meeting them, and beating them, in court."

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY | The Associated Press

5 minute read

December 28, 2015 | Daily Report Online

With three seats open on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and a chance to flip control of the judicial branch, a wave of campaign cash, independent expenditures and negative TV ads flooded the state in the weeks before the November election.

By Christina A. Cassidy

6 minute read

December 28, 2015 | Daily Report Online

With three seats open on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and a chance to flip control of the judicial branch, a wave of campaign cash, independent expenditures and negative TV ads flooded the state in the weeks before the November election.

By Christina A. Cassidy

6 minute read

September 05, 2014 | Daily Report Online

A federal judge from Alabama will be allowed to enter a court program to resolve a misdemeanor battery case against him that involved allegations he hit his wife during a fight at an Atlanta hotel.

By Christina A. Cassidy

1 minute read

September 05, 2014 | Daily Report Online

The head of the state ethics commission was placed on administrative leave with pay on Friday, a few days after she was fined by a judge for failing to turn over key documents in a lawsuit against the agency.

By Christina A. Cassidy

2 minute read

July 15, 2014 | Daily Report Online

The head of the state ethics commission claims an attorney for Gov. Nathan Deal once threatened to thwart efforts to expand the agency's authority unless she made complaints against the governor "go away," according to a memo obtained Monday from the Attorney General's Office.

By Christina A. Cassidy

5 minute read

July 09, 2014 | Daily Report Online

Georgia's governor is pushing clinical trials for a marijuana-derived drug that proponents say could help treat severe seizure disorders among children, an unlikely election-year move for a Republican in a conservative part of the country that is just beginning to warm up to medical marijuana in narrow circumstances.

By Christina A. Cassidy

3 minute read

June 13, 2014 | Daily Report Online

The state ethics commission has settled for more than $1.8 million with three former employees alleging retaliation stemming from an investigation into complaints against Gov. Nathan Deal.

By Christina A. Cassidy

4 minute read