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Plaintiffs Fire Back at State in Felons' Voting Rights Case

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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Daily Report Online

Who Can Defend Voting Rights? An Appeals Court Ruling Sharply Limiting Lawsuits Looks Likely to Head to the Supreme Court

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.
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Daily Report Online

Appeals Court Says Ga. May Elect Utility Panel Statewide, Rejecting a Ruling for District Voting

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.
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The American Lawyer

A Steward Through Our Most Challenging Times

Neil Eggleston of Kirkland & Ellis, a recent American Lawyer Lifetime Achievement honoree, has guided the country through multiple presidencies and cultural flashpoints.
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Daily Report Online

Updated: Judge Imposes Stricter Bond Conditions on Trump Co-Defendant in Ga. Election Subversion Case

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.
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Daily Report Online

Fulton Judge to Consider Revoking a Trump Co-Defendant's Bond in Ga. Election Case

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.
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Daily Business Review

Third DCA Clears Gabela's Candidacy Against Díaz de la Portilla, Strikes Sanctions

"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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Daily Report Online

Ga. Prosecutor Seeks August Trial Date for Trump and Others in Election Case

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Friday filed a motion to schedule the start of the trial for Aug. 5. Willis wrote that the proposed trial date balances potential delays from Trump's other criminal trials and the speedy trial rights of the other defendants.
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Daily Report Online

As Georgia Looks to Court-Ordered Redistricting, Not Only Republicans Are in Peril

Unlike earlier decades, when Republicans avoided losses, some Georgia GOP lawmakers are now likely to walk the plank when new districts are drawn. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones in October ordered Georgia to draw Black majorities in one additional congressional district, two additional state Senate districts, and five additional state House districts.
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Daily Report Online

Atlanta to Host '25 MLB All-Star Game After Losing '21 Game Over Objections to Voting Law

"I made the decision in 2021 to move the event, and I understand, believe me, that people had then and probably still have different views as to the merits of that decision," baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday during an announcement that followed an owners' meeting.
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