Several Georgia attorneys are asking a Fulton County judge to bar three appointees to the state’s newly expanded Court of Appeals from taking office, saying that their appointments by Gov. Nathan Deal were unconstitutional.
The suit—filed by three attorneys, a former Macon city commissioner and a Douglasville minister—says that Deal had no constitutional authority to appoint Nels Peterson, Brian Rickman and Amanda Mercier to the state appellate bench, despite the state law passed last spring that created the new judicial posts. Instead, according to the suit, the Georgia Constitution mandates that new appellate posts be filled by election.
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