By Mason Lawlor | November 30, 2023
Court found their request to replace Georgia's chosen form of government with a completely different one "strains both federalism and Section 2 to the breaking point."
By Steve Peoples, Thomas Beaumont and Holly Ramer | November 30, 2023
Struggling to energize his campaign, Gov. Ron DeSantis this week privately encouraged his donor network to support a newly formed super PAC that's taking over advertising responsibilities.
By Cheryl Miller | November 29, 2023
Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative Democrats have asked the court to keep the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act off next November's ballot.
By Jim Saunders | November 29, 2023
A 2018 constitutional amendment, known as Amendment 4, was designed to restore voting rights for felons who have completed their sentences.
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By Anthony Michael Kreis | November 27, 2023
After a federal appeals court in Arkansas recently ruled that only the federal government—not private citizens or civil rights groups—could sue to enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act, an appeal to the Supreme Court is likely. But if the ruling stands, it could gut individual persons' and civil rights groups' legal right to fight racial discrimination in voting.
By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press | November 27, 2023
The ruling is important beyond Georgia's Public Service Commission because it could help protect certain statewide elections in other states subject to scrutiny for racial discrimination under the Voting Rights Act.
By Andrew Maloney | November 22, 2023
Neil Eggleston of Kirkland & Ellis, a recent American Lawyer Lifetime Achievement honoree, has guided the country through multiple presidencies and cultural flashpoints.
By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press | November 21, 2023
Judge Scott McAfee said there is no constitutional right to bail and that bond orders can contain conditions that curtail a defendant's rights, but he also noted that people are generally allowed to publicly criticize the merits of the case but cannot cross a line. He said Harrison Floyd appears "very boldly willing to explore where that line is" in this case.
By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press | November 21, 2023
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis last week filed a motion asking county Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to revoke the bond of Harrison Floyd. She wrote in her motion that Floyd has been attempting to intimidate and contact likely witnesses and his co-defendants in violation of the terms of his release.
By Michael A. Mora | November 21, 2023
"We decline the city's invitation to add by judicial fiat what the plain language of its charter provision doesn't require," the Third District Court of Appeal ruled, in favor of district one candidate Miguel Angel Gabela.
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