#SB202--#Indiana's education law that will squelch academic freedom--is likely to land on Gov. Holcomb's desk tomorrow (Fri). Please call his office or send him an email, using this form. Select "Senate" in the drop-down menu. https://bit.ly/sb202-holcomb-veto-email
Info on SB 202 https://www.jconline.com/story/news/local/indiana/2024/02/27/indianas-tenure-reform-bill-senate-bill-202-passes-house/72763371007/
As per #DemocracyDocket
NEW:
Federal court rejects #Georgia’s attempts to dismiss a claim by the U.S. #JusticeDepartment in a lawsuit challenging the state's #VoterSuppression law #SB202. The #DOJ claims that SB 202 violates Section 2 of the #VotingRightsAct.
The recent transformation of the state’s election laws explicitly enabled citizens to file unlimited challenges to other voters’ registrations. Experts warn that election officials’ handling of some of those challenges may clash with federal law.
State Of Georgia v. US Department Of Justice (1:21-cv-03138), District Court, District of Columbia, Filed 2021/12/01
Free copy of public docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/61585890/state-of-georgia-v-us-department-of-justice/
#Georgia contests the application of #FOIA Exemption 5 concerning communication between #DOJ and outside groups suing to halt Georgia's Election Integrity Act of 2021 #SB202
Judge decides for Georgia, rejecting DOJ defenses that Klamath (2001) protects litigation strategy communications under a “consultant corollary” rule or that the DOJ demonstrated the outside groups/lawyers were “enough like the agency’s own personnel to justify calling their communications ‘intra-agency?’”
DOJ appeals
Georgia: #SB202 didn’t stop enough people from voting, so now we have #SB221 and #SB222
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Georgia is on our minds — again —this week on the Election Crimes Bulletin, with new GOP laws to eliminate absentee voting by dropbox (SB 221), to stop the use of (unfortunately) much-needed donations to support election administration (SB 222), and to create a new Georgia commission to restrict and remove prosecutors (SB 92). The later law is clearly aimed at curtailing the activities of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who’s investigating criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election by Donald Trump and his cronies, and is edging ever closer to indictments. Meanwhile the Biden Administration has joined Fair Fight, the voting rights organization founded by Georgia’s should-have-been-governor Stacey Abrams, in their legal action against True the Vote, the right wing "election integrity" organization that attempted to overturn the 2020 and 2022 elections with mass voter challenges. Earlier this month, US District Court Judge Steve C. Jones ordered True the Vote to stand trial in Atlanta. In his summary judgment, Judge Jones noted that even True the Vote’s so-called expert, Gregg Phillips, “candidly admits that there will be voters on the challenge list that are eligible to vote.” But it remains to be seen how far the Biden Administration will go to support Fair Fight’s action against True the Vote and its army of vigilante vote challengers, which we exposed before the 2022 election in on our film, Vigilante. Also in the news is Ginni Thomas, the wife of US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who’s raised new ethics questions after it was revealed that Crowdsourcers for Culture and Liberty, a conservative think tank led by her, accepted anonymous donations totaling $596,000 in 2019. Much of the money, $400,000, came via Donors Trust, an organization that has long been on the radar of the Palast Investigations team. As a funnel for Koch funds, Donors Trust had a prominent role in our 2016 film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Learn all about this and more on the latest edition of the Election Crimes Bulletin with Dennis Bernstein and Greg Palast.
The Department of Justice has finally taken on ‘True the Vote’, the right-wing group behind the wrongful challenge of hundreds of thousands of legal Georgia voters. True the Vote challenges were the central subject of the film Vigilante: Georgia’s Vote Suppression Hitman created by the Palast Investigative Fund team. Watch Vigilante for no charge, through New Year’s Day at: http://VigilanteMovie.com
#Georgia #Runoff #RunoffGA #gapol #BrianKemp #SB202 #BlackVotesMatter #BlackVotersMatter #podcast
Record turn-out in #Georgia? There was a record COLLAPSE from 4.48 million in the 2021 #runoff to 3.54 million this year. #Warnock’s vote in Fulton (Atlanta) plummeted by 74,000 votes. Let’s cut the BS—#BrianKemp’s #SB202 Jim Crow’d this election.
Find out how the #GeorgiaRunoff was Jim Crow’d. Watch our film, Vigilante: Georgia's Vote Suppression Hitman — FREE to stream for a limited time at: http://VigilanteMovie.com
#Georgia: The Jim Crow operation here is beyond belief. If you just go by the polls, Warnock's walking back into office. But if you understand how #SB202 — the Jim Crow voting law that was signed by Governor #BrianKemp — works, anyone who makes a prediction about what will happen today is a fool. Because it's not just Warnock versus Walker, it's Warnock versus Jim Crow.
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