Tag Archives: Georgia

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 …

Jimmy Williams The Georgia Court of Appeals has temporarily halted the election interference case against former President Donald Trump and several others. This pause allows the court to review a lower court judge’s decision to keep Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on the case. On Wednesday, the appeals court …

Jimmy Williams A California man, Mark Schultz, 66, from Chula Vista, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Atlanta for threatening Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, announced the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia on Friday. Schultz, indicted on April 24, made his initial court …

Jimmy Williams Former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case faced a setback on Thursday as a Fulton County Superior Court Judge, Scott McAfee, denied their bid to dismiss the charges on First Amendment grounds. In his 14-page ruling, Judge McAfee stated that while the …

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder The 2024 election season may further highlight contentious voter eligibility challenges and result in the enactment of new rules governing future elections in Georgia. Republicans in the Georgia Legislature passed a series of election rules as the 2024 session concluded last week that would change how …

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has dismissed six of 41 charges against Donald Trump and multiple co-defendants in the Georgia 2020 presidential election interference case. McAfee ruled Wednesday that the Fulton District Attorney’s office has not provided enough evidence to show six of the …

Jill Nolin, Georgia Recorder President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, separated by less than one hundred miles in Georgia, took turns attacking each other in front of friendly crowds Saturday as voting wraps up Tuesday in the battleground state. “You’re the reason we’re going to win,” Biden said …

Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder A Fulton County judge on Friday said he plans to rule in the next two weeks on whether to remove District Attorney Fani Willis and her team of prosecutors from the high-profile 2020 election interference case that has been sidetracked by a series of contentious court …