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Fani Willis to appeal to Georgia Supreme Court after disqualification in Trump case
3 days, 23 hours ago

Fani Willis to appeal to Georgia Supreme Court after disqualification in Trump case

Raw Story  

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed a notice of appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court after she was disqualified from prosecuting President-elect Donald Trump and others for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. In a Thursday filing to the Georgia Court of Appeals, the Fulton County District Attorney's Office said it intended "to petition the Supreme Court of …

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Georgia Supreme Court Order Risks Disenfranchising Cobb County Voters
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Georgia Supreme Court Order Risks Disenfranchising Cobb County Voters

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING MARIETTA, Ga. — About 3,400 voters in a key Georgia county received their mail-in ballots just days ago, or not at all — and on Monday, the state’s Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling that gave them extra time to get their ballots in. Ballots postmarked on time but received by Friday, the court said, should …

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Georgia Supreme Court restores near-ban on abortions while state appeals
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Georgia Supreme Court restores near-ban on abortions while state appeals

LA Times  

Abortion rights protesters rally near the Georgia state Capitol in Atlanta on May 14. “The `status quo’ that should be maintained is the state of the law before the challenged laws took effect.” Clare Bartlett, executive director of the Georgia Life Alliance, called high court’s decision “appropriate,” fearing that without it, women from other states would begin coming to Georgia …

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Georgia Supreme Court sends abortion law challenge back to lower court, leaving access unchanged
1 year, 1 month ago

Georgia Supreme Court sends abortion law challenge back to lower court, leaving access unchanged

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a lower court ruling that the state’s restrictive abortion law was invalid, leaving limited access to abortions unchanged for now. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney said last November that the ban was “unequivocally unconstitutional” because it was enacted in 2019, when Roe v. Wade allowed abortions well past six …

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US Supreme Court OKs Graham testimony in Georgia election probe
2 years, 1 month ago

US Supreme Court OKs Graham testimony in Georgia election probe

Al Jazeera  

US Senator Lindsey Graham, a top Trump ally, had asked top court to halt order compelling him to testify in state probe. The United States Supreme Court has declined to block Senator Lindsey Graham from having to testify before a grand jury in a criminal investigation of Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state of …

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'Absurd': Experts say Justice Clarence Thomas 'giving the finger to the court'
2 years, 1 month ago

'Absurd': Experts say Justice Clarence Thomas 'giving the finger to the court'

Raw Story  

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas temporarily blocked an order requiring Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to testify before an Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. But the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Georgia prosecutors could question Graham about the phone calls and "communications and coordination with the Trump campaign regarding …

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Georgia patients sent home after abortion ban comes into effect
2 years, 5 months ago

Georgia patients sent home after abortion ban comes into effect

Al Jazeera  

US court allows six-week abortion ban to come into force in Georgia, forcing clinics to swiftly turn away patients. A federal judge blocked it that October before it could take effect, finding it violated the right to abortion established by the US Supreme Court in its 1973 landmark Roe v Wade ruling. According to the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights …

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Lawyers: Georgia man’s death sentence is unconstitutional
2 years, 7 months ago

Lawyers: Georgia man’s death sentence is unconstitutional

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Lawyers for a Georgia man whose execution was put on hold by a judge this week are arguing that he is ineligible for execution because he has cognitive impairments that cause him to function like a young child or someone with intellectual disability. Lawyers for Virgil Delano Presnell Jr. said in a filing with the Georgia Supreme Court …

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