Tag Archives: Georgia

Politico reports: Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, two Georgia election workers who have been tormented by harassment and threats since 2020, were prepared Tuesday to confront the man they view as the chief instigator of their suffering: Rudy Giuliani. But Giuliani was a no-show at a federal court hearing in the duo’s defamation lawsuit, prompting a lashing for his attorney …

The Hill reports: A case to determine how much ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani owes two Georgia poll workers for falsely claiming they helped steal the election from former President Trump will be heard and decided by a jury, a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled late Sunday. In a sharply worded ruling, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell denied Giuliani’s …

The Meidas Touch reports: On Tuesday, Trevian Kutti took to Instagram Live to appeal for legal donations to fight charges listed in the Fulton County District Attorney’s RICO indictment against Trump, Kutti, and 17 other codefendants. Kutti faces charges related to compelling false statements from a witness, specifically Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman. During the video, Kutti appeared to threaten …

“I’m working on a piece of legislation called the Stop Political Persecutions Act and this thing is going to be foolproof. We are going to list out every single charge that these people have been indicted with and just say those charges are not going to be associated with RICO anymore. And therefore, that would retroactively drop the charges. Fani …

The Associated Press reports: A Texas man convicted of threatening Georgia election officials online after the 2020 election was sentenced to two years in prison Wednesday. Chad Christopher Stark, who pleaded guilty to one count of a sending a threat using a telecommunications device in August, also was sentenced to one year of probation. “As I see it, our country …

Axios reports: An Atlanta memorial service for the late first lady Rosalynn Carter on Tuesday will feature a host of dignitaries, including her 99-year-old husband, former President Carter. The 1pm ET service will be at the Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church at Emory University, where Rosalynn Carter was a fellow in the women’s studies department for decades. President Biden and …

The Guardian reports: Fulton county prosecutors do not intend to offer plea deals to Donald Trump and at least two high-level co-defendants charged in connection with their efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, according to two people familiar with the matter, preferring instead to force them to trial. The individuals seen as ineligible include Trump, his former White …

Fox News reports: Former first lady Melania Trump is expected to join her contemporaries and other leaders at a memorial tribute service for the former first lady Rosalynn Carter. Trump will be joined by other living former first ladies – including Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush – the Carter Center said Monday in a news release announcing the …

Atlanta’s Fox affiliate reports: Rosalynn Carter is making her final journey to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta on Monday as her family and the nation begin three days of memorials for the former first lady. The Georgia native and global humanitarian died on Nov. 19 at the age of 96. After brief ceremonies in the Carters’ native Sumter …

CNN reports: The North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church voted Saturday to accept the decision of 261 congregations to leave the denomination over a divide on LGBTQ issues. “I realize how sad this time is for many, including myself,” said Bishop Robin Dease, the leader of the conference. “I just hate that those who are leaving us, I …

Courthouse News reports: Prosecutors filed a motion Friday requesting a Aug. 5, 2024, trial date for the election subversion case against former President Donald Trump and multiple other defendants in Georgia. In the filing, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said the proposed trial date “balances potential delays from defendant Trump’s other criminal trials in sister sovereigns and the other …

“I’ve watched people who’ve attacked me literally grow brain tumors and be in a wheelchair where they couldn’t walk. Nothing I did. I would never want anything bad to happen to them, but just attacking you, jealously, just bitterness and anger and they, it just literally wilts them like a flower. And it just happens when you have an evil …

The Washington Examiner reports: Fulton County prosecutors asked a judge Wednesday to jail Harrison Floyd, a co-defendant in Donald Trump’s 2020 election subversion case in Georgia, over alleged attempts to intimidate witnesses, according to a court filing. “The Defendant’s actions demonstrate that he poses a significant threat of intimidating witnesses and otherwise obstructing the administration of justice in the future, …

The Messenger reports: An attorney for one of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election-racketeering case said at an emergency hearing Wednesday that he provided confidential video evidence to the media. “In being transparent with the court, and to make sure that nobody else gets blamed for what happened, and so I can go to sleep well tonight, judge, I …

The Washington Post reports: The Atlanta-area prosecutor leading the criminal racketeering case against former president Donald Trump and 14 allies alleging they broke the law when they sought to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia asked the judge overseeing the case to immediately issue an “emergency” protective order over discovery materials to prevent leaks of potential evidence. The recordings …

The Chicago Tribune reports: An Orland Park pastor charged with conspiring with others in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia says he is not planning to take a plea deal, but his attorney said that going through a trial would likely be very expensive. The Rev. Stephen Cliffgard Lee, pastor at Living Word Lutheran Church …

Raw Story reports: Gabriel Sterling, the Republican chief operating officer of the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, took a victory lap on Wednesday when he brandished a check his office had received from former Donald Trump attorney Sidney Powell. Sterling spoke to reporters about false accusations leveled by former President Trump and his supporters about the integrity of Georgia’s elections …

Atlanta’s Fox affiliate reports: An Acworth man who once had a leadership role at a popular Cobb County church has been arrested. Cobb Police have charged him with four counts of child molestation for his alleged encounters with a 15-year-old boy who attended the church. Cobb Police have arrested the 32-year-old former Worship in Wonders former director of operations Marcus …

The Washington Post reports: A federal judge has struck down Georgia’s political district maps as unconstitutional, and ordered state lawmakers to redraw them by Dec. 8, in a win for voting rights activists who argued the state’s maps dilute the power of Black voters. In a ruling issued Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Steve Jones wrote that Georgia’s congressional and …

The Associated Press reports: Georgia’s lieutenant governor said Wednesday that he wants to pay teachers $10,000 a year to encourage them to carry guns in schools. Republican Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, speaking at Austin Road Elementary School in Winder on Wednesday, said he wants the state to spend more money on school safety, including paying for teachers and other non-officers …