Tag Archives: Georgia

Herschel Walker’s Ex-Wife Appears In Brutal New Ad

Mediaite reports: The anti-Trump group The Republican Accountability Project ran an ad on Monday showing Georgia GOP Senate nominee Herschel Walker’s ex-wife accusing him of domestic violence, including holding her at gunpoint. The video shows a highlight of Walker, a former football player, scoring a touchdown in college, while a narrator says, “Do you think you know Herschel Walker? Well, …

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Trump Cultists Plot Campaign To Recall Georgia DA

Yahoo News reports: Donald Trump’s allies in Georgia are mounting a campaign to recall Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over her investigation into the then president’s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and are seeking to recruit high-dollar donors to fund it, according to sources familiar with the effort. A source involved in the effort told …

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Walker Finally Commits To Debating Warnock [VIDEO]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Herschel Walker said he would participate in an Oct. 14 debate in Savannah against U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock amid pressure from his allies and criticism from Democrats who mocked him for refusing to commit to a showdown. The former football star has hedged for months about whether he’d square off against Warnock, …

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Georgians May Now Claim Embryos As Dependents

NBC News reports: Georgia residents can now claim embryos as dependents on their state taxes, the state’s revenue department announced Monday. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last month that “Georgia’s prohibition on abortions after detectable human heartbeat is rational.” The state’s Living Infants and Fairness Equality (LIFE) Act “defines a ‘natural person’ as ‘any human being including an …

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Atlanta Music Festival Canceled Over Open Carry Law

Billboard Magazine reports: The long-running Music Midtown festival at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, scheduled for Sept. 17-18 with headliners My Chemical Romance, Future, Jack White and Fallout Boy, has been called off. The likely cause, industry sources tell Billboard, are recent changes to Georgia gun laws that prevent the festival from banning guns on to the publicly owned festival grounds. …

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Graham Hires Trump Lawyer To Fight GA Subpoena

Law & Crime reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has retained Donald Trump’s former White House counsel Don McGahn to pursue his newly refiled federal lawsuit challenging a subpoena in connection with a special grand jury investigation on attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. In July, Graham filed a federal lawsuit in South Carolina seeking to quash an order forcing …

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Fox Poll: Raphael Warnock +4 Over Herschel Walker

Fox News reports: The U.S. Senate race in Georgia is key for determining control of the upper house next year. The poll, released Thursday, finds Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock up 4 percentage points over Republican Herschel Walker (46% vs. 42%). These results are within the margin of error. Warnock’s advantage comes from being about 20+ points ahead of Walker among …

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Georgia State Bar Investigates Two GOP Fake Electors

CNN reports: The State Bar of Georgia is investigating two Republican lawyers who signed on to the “fake electors” scheme to subvert the Electoral College in the 2020 presidential election. The lawyers, Brad Carver and Daryl Moody, were specifically referred to the State Disciplinary Board for investigation by the Office of General Counsel, the state bar told CNN in a …

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Georgia Governor To Testify In Trump Criminal Probe

Bloomberg News reports: Georgia Governor Brian Kemp will become the latest politician to answer to Fani Willis, the Atlanta-based prosecutor commanding a wide-reaching investigation of former President Donald Trump’s attempts to change the outcome of the 2020 election. Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, has also issued subpoenas in recent days seeking testimony from some of Trump’s closest confidantes …

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Cultist Rep Loses Bid To Quash Georgia Subpoena

Axios reports: An Atlanta federal judge says she plans to deny Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.)’s effort to avoid giving subpoenaed testimony before the Fulton County district attorney’s special purpose grand jury focused on the 2020 election. The news could have implications for other federal officials seeking to avoid testifying before the panel focused on efforts to overturn the 2020 election …

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Setback For Georgia DA In Trump Corruption Probe

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: In a surprise decision and a significant rebuke of the DA, Fulton Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney on Monday granted a motion from Burt Jones [photo], the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, to replace Willis and the entire Fulton DA’s office in the examination of his specific role in the case. That means another set of …

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GA School’s New Logo Reminds People Of Something

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: The Cobb County School District said Tuesday it’s halted the rollout of a new logo for an elementary school after parents pointed out similarities to Nazi iconography. The logo for East Side Elementary in Marietta depicted an eagle, the school’s mascot, over the initials ES. The Nazi eagle, which was developed in the 1920s and later …

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Giuliani Ordered To Testify Before Georgia Grand Jury

NBC News reports: A New York judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to testify before the Georgia special grand jury hearing evidence in an investigation into possible 2020 election interference by former President Donald Trump and others, court filings show. The order came after Giuliani, who was Trump’s personal attorney, failed to appear at a July 13 hearing before the judge …

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11 Georgia Fake Electors Deemed “Criminal Targets”

Politico reports: Eleven of the 16 Republicans who falsely signed certificates claiming to be Georgia’s valid presidential electors say they’ve been deemed criminal “targets” by the Fulton County district attorney [photo], who is investigating efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results in the state. In a court filing seeking to be excused from testifying …

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Graham Agrees To Accept GA Grand Jury’s Subpoena

CNBC reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham agreed Tuesday to accept service of a subpoena for his testimony before a Georgia grand jury investigating possible criminal meddling in the 2020 election by then-President Donald Trump. But Graham, R-S.C., still retained his right to challenge the legality of the subpoena, a court filing showed. The Atlanta-based grand jury is seeking evidence related to …

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Cultist Rep Challenges Subpoena From GA Grand Jury

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: U.S. Rep. Jody Hice on Monday became the second member of Congress to challenge a subpoena issued by the Fulton County special grand jury examining Georgia’s 2020 elections. But unlike U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who plans to cite the Constitution’s “Speech or Debate” clause before a federal judge on Wednesday in an attempt to quash …

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Georgia School District Allows Personnel To Carry Guns

Reuters reports: Georgia’s second-largest school district has approved a policy to allow personnel who are not certified police officers to carry guns, part of its response to the shooting at a Texas school that killed 19 children and two adults two months ago. The Cobb County school board voted 4-2 at a meeting on Thursday to adopt the policy as …

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GA Fake Elector Demands DA Recuse From His Case

Axios reports: A Georgia Republican lawmaker who is a target of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ investigation into the 2020 election is calling on Willis to recuse herself from his prosecution. State Sen. Burt Jones was among a group of false electors Republicans organized after Georgia’s 2020 election to “certify” a victory for then-President Trump. Several of those false …

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Graham Claims Immunity From Georgia Subpoena

Congress Minutes reports: Attorneys for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) have formally asked a federal court to quash a subpoena demanding his testimony before a grand jury in Georgia. The filing asks Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis, whose office launched the investigation into Trump officials in Georgia following the 2020 election, to respond to their motion within three days …

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Warnock Outraises Walker By Three Times For Quarter

Axios reports: Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker just had his best fundraising quarter yet, with nearly $6.2 million raised over the last three months. But that’s under 3x less than the $17.2 million that incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) raised during the same time. The fundraising news comes the same week that Walker’s campaign announced a slew of new hires, …

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