Tag: Georgia
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Judge invalidates Georgia election rules crafted by Trump allies
A Georgia judge invalidated several new election rules on Wednesday, calling the measures approved by the state’s Republican-controlled election board “unconstitutional” and in violation of state law. The ruling, handed down by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox, applies to a hand-count rule for Election Day ballots and rules tied to the certification of…
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Georgia judge blocks rule requiring counties to hand-count Election Day ballots
A Georgia judge on Tuesday blocked a new rule from the state’s election board that would have required counties to count ballots cast on Election Day by hand, a provision critics had said would cause delays in reporting results in the battleground state. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his decision that…
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Local election officials in Georgia must certify results, judge rules
County election boards in Georgia are not allowed to refuse to certify election results, a state judge ruled on Tuesday. Concerns of fraud or abuse are to be settled in court, the judge said, not by county officials acting unilaterally. “If election superintendents were, as Plaintiff urges, free to play investigator, prosecutor, jury, and judge…
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Georgia Supreme Court reinstates state’s 6-week abortion ban
The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday reinstated the state’s six-week abortion ban while it reviews an appeal from the state to an earlier ruling from a lower court that had struck down the law. The decision from the state Supreme Court goes into effect at 5 p.m. local time, meaning that most abortions will again…
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Biden heads to Carolinas and Kamala Harris to Georgia to view Hurricane Helene damage
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are set to take separate tours on Wednesday of the catastrophic damage resulting from Hurricane Helene, from which at least 150 people have died. Biden is expected to visit North Carolina and South Carolina days after the storm swept through Florida and traveled north, causing damage as…
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State judge strikes down Georgia abortion ban
A judge in Georgia’s Fulton County struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban Monday, allowing the procedure to resume and making it legal up to 22 weeks of pregnancy. The state law was signed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in 2019 but didn’t take effect until July 2022 after it faced a legal challenge and…
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Democrats sue Georgia election board over new rule requiring hand-counting of ballots
Democrats want a judge to block the Georgia State Election Board’s newly passed requirement for counties to hand-count ballots cast on Election Day, arguing the 11th-hour move is unlawful and could cause “chaos” in the battleground state. The board’s controversial 3-2 vote earlier this month “changes the rules of the game in the ninth inning,”…
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Shelter-in-place advisory extended in Georgia county after chlorine detected in air
A shelter-in-place advisory has been extended for an entire Georgia county Monday after chlorine was detected in the air, emitting from a chemical lab where there was a fire the day before. A chemical fire ignited on the roof of the BioLab plant in Conyers, Rockdale County at 5 a.m. Sunday after a sprinkler head…
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88 dead in storm; Trump expected to visit hard-hit Georgia city
Share More rain still possible across parts of Central Appalachians The leftovers of once-Hurricane Helene combined with a mild rain front could dump additional rain on parts of Central Appalachians, federal forecasters said. Between 1 to 2 inches of rain, with up to 5 inches in some areas, could fall from West Virginia into northwest…
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Georgia chemical lab fire prompts evacuations, shelter-in-place orders for entire county
Residents of an entire Georgia county were asked to shelter in place after a fire and ongoing chemical release erupted at a plant east of Atlanta on Sunday. The shelter-in-place recommendation for residents of Rockdale County, population 93,570, was valid through midnight, the county said in a statement. As an associated chemical reaction continued to…