Tag Archives: Georgia

Shefali Luthra Originally published by The 19th UPDATE: The Supreme Court of Georgia will reinstate the state’s six-week abortion ban starting 5 p.m. Monday, just a week after a trial court struck down the law. Some abortion providers in the state had resumed offering abortions past six weeks of pregnancy …

Jimmy Williams President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris began separate tours on Wednesday to assess the catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Helene, which has claimed at least 150 lives. The hurricane devastated parts of the southeastern United States, with major destruction across Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and beyond. Biden …

Jimmy Williams Vice President Kamala Harris will assess damage caused by Hurricane Helene during visits to Georgia and North Carolina this week, just over a month before Election Day. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, is set to tour the disaster zones in Georgia on Wednesday, with a stop in North …

Jimmy Williams During a visit to Hurricane Helene-ravaged south Georgia on Monday, former President Donald Trump falsely accused President Joe Biden of ignoring Georgia Governor Brian Kemp’s calls for federal assistance. Despite claiming he wasn’t politicizing the disaster, Trump repeatedly stated that Biden was “sleeping” and unresponsive to Kemp’s requests. …

Jimmy Williams The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Democratic Party of Georgia are urging a judge to block a new Georgia State Election Board rule that mandates hand-counting ballots cast on Election Day. The Democrats argue that the last-minute rule, passed earlier this month, is unlawful and risks creating …

Jimmy Williams A Georgia judge has struck down the state’s controversial abortion law, which prohibited most abortions after approximately six weeks of pregnancy, deeming it unconstitutional and restoring the state’s abortion rights to their pre-2019 status. The decision comes after years of legal battles following the law’s passage in 2019 …

Jennifer Gerson Originally published by The 19th Vice President Kamala Harris told an Atlanta area audience Friday that “Trump abortion bans” were to blame for the “preventable” deaths of two Georgia women in the news this week, “and those are only the stories we know.” Friday’s event in this key …

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder Three Donald Trump loyalist Georgia State Election Board members adopted a contentious rule Friday requiring the hand counting of paper ballots cast during the upcoming Nov. 5 election despite warnings from county election directors that it could lead to more delays with reporting results this fall. …

Jennifer Gerson Originally published by The 19th Callie Beale Harper was 37 when she found out she was pregnant with twins. Already the mom to a four-year-old son, she and her husband were so excited to grow their family, they opted for noninvasive prenatal testing as soon as it was …

Kavitha Surana Series: Life of the Mother: How Abortion Bans Lead to Preventable Deaths More in this series In her final hours, Amber Nicole Thurman suffered from a grave infection that her suburban Atlanta hospital was well-equipped to treat. She’d taken abortion pills and encountered a rare complication; she had …

Jimmy Williams A shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, left four people dead and nine others injured on Wednesday morning, authorities have confirmed. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced that one suspect had been taken into custody alive, refuting earlier reports suggesting the suspect had been “neutralized.” Neither …

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder Several Democratic Georgia lawmakers, and religious and civil rights leaders implored Gov. Brian Kemp Monday to remove three Donald Trump loyalist State Election Board members accused of holding an illegal meeting and enacting illegal election rules over the last several weeks. The fallout from a July …

Jimmy Williams Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz are set to embark on a bus tour of Southern Georgia next week, marking their first time campaigning together in the state. This tour will also be their first public event following the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The …

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder The Georgia State Election Board finalized a rule Monday that gives local officials more power to dispute certifying election results by adopting a new ballot counting policy that critics contend could disrupt the presidential election in November. The new rule requiring election workers to manually count …

Jimmy Williams Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, voiced strong opposition last week against a proposed election rule change that would mandate the hand counting of ballots at polling places on election night. This proposal, advanced by the State Election Board in July, would require three poll workers to count …