Tag Archives: Georgia

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

Atlanta’s ABC affiliate reports: A Fulton County judge has ordered U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham to testify in front of a special grand jury looking into possible election tampering by former President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ruled Monday that Graham will be required to testify on Aug. 2 after Graham said …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: State Sen. Burt Jones’ role on a phony slate of GOP electors in Georgia, designed to help Donald Trump’s failed effort to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, is drawing increased scrutiny as the Republican vies to become the state’s next lieutenant governor. The Justice Department last month sought records from Georgia GOP …

The Washington Post reports: Stacey Abrams’ fundraising continues to accelerate, swamping Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and pushing close to $50 million raised in the seven months since the Georgia Democrat announced her campaign in December. Abrams announced Friday that her direct campaign and its associated One Georgia committee raised $21.8 million during the two months ended June 30 and together …

NBC News reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told NBC News Wednesday that additional subpoenas of associates of former President Donald Trump could be expected, adding that she does not rule out the possibility of issuing a subpoena to Trump himself. Willis’ remarks came a day after the grand jury empaneled to look into possible 2020 election interference subpoenaed …

Newsweek reports: An explosive device is suspected to have been used to cause part of the 19-foot-tall Georgia Guidestones granite monument in Elberton to crumble on Wednesday night, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). “The preliminary information indicates that unknown individuals detonated an explosive device at around 4:00 a.m. on Wednesday, July 6th,” the GBI said in a …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: The Fulton County special grand jury investigating potential criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 elections has subpoenaed key members of former President Donald Trump’s legal team, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. In addition to Giuliani, among those being summoned are John Eastman, Cleta Mitchell, Kenneth Chesebro and Jenna Ellis, all of whom advised Trump on strategies …

“There was an interesting timeline that started to happen, a pattern is a better way to put it. So I would go on TV, I would speak the truth and within minutes he (Trump) would send a tweet out that would say something derogatory or inflammatory. “And within minutes after that, me or my wife would start to get threats …

CNN reports: Georgia investigators are scrutinizing Rudy Giuliani’s appearance before state lawmakers in 2020, where he peddled baseless claims of voter fraud and encouraged legislators to appoint a new slate of presidential electors. The special purpose grand jury — which has been investigating whether former President Donald Trump or his allies violated the law in their efforts to flip the …

The Washington Post reports: Federal agents investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday dropped subpoenas on people in multiple locations, widening the probe of how political activists supporting President Donald Trump tried to use invalid electors to thwart Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. Among those who received a subpoena Wednesday was David Shafer, the chairman …

The Huffington Post reports: Herschel Walker was going after Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor, for recently saying, “I am tired of hearing about [Georgia] being the best state in the country to do business when we are the worst state in the country to live.” Abrams cited the state’s problems with mental health treatment, maternal mortality, incarceration rates …

Atlanta’s CBS News affiliate reports: Rich McCormick defeated Jake Evans [photo] in the GOP 6th Congressional District runoff on Tuesday. McCormick will face Democrat Bob Christian in the Nov. 8 midterms in a contest that could, once again, help determine control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Former President Donald Trump held a Monday night tele-rally in support of Evans, …

Fox News reports: Mike Collins has won the Republican primary runoff election in Georgia’s 10th Congressional District, defeating Trump-backed Vernon Jones for the GOP nomination. The win for Collins, who had 78% of the vote to Jones’ 24% when the Associated Press called the race, is seen as a loss for former President Donald Trump, who while not on the …

Axios reports: Former President Trump’s taped phone call pressing Georgia’s Republican secretary of state in January 2021 to “find 11,780 votes” should be “enough” to indict him, a former Watergate prosecutor told MSNBC on Sunday. While Trump has dismissed both the Fulton County investigation and the Jan. 6 committee hearings as “witch-hunts,” former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman told MSNBC’s “The …

The Washington Post reports: A cybersecurity executive who has aided efforts by election deniers to investigate the 2020 vote said in a recent court document that he had “forensically examined” the voting system used in Coffee County, Ga. The assertion by executive Benjamin Cotton that he examined the county’s voting system is the strongest indication yet that the security of …

Politico reports: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is in talks with the Jan. 6 committee to testify publicly, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. Raffensperger, a Republican and Georgia’s top elections official, withstood pressure from then-President Donald Trump, in a now-infamous Jan. 2, 2021 call, to “find” enough votes to ensure the president’s victory in the state, …

Mediaite reports: My Pillow founder and Donald Trump loyalist Mike Lindell claims Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) stole the recent primary where he walked away with more than 70 percent of the vote. According to Lindell, he has “preliminary evidence” that Kemp’s votes were at least partly stolen, vaguely explaining that many of his votes were taken from Kandiss Taylor, …