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Via press release from Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp: Today, Major League Baseball caved to fear, political opportunism, and liberal lies. Georgians – and all Americans – should fully understand what the MLB’s knee-jerk decision means: cancel culture and woke political activists are coming for every aspect of your life, sports included. If the left doesn’t agree with you, facts and …

ESPN reports: Major League Baseball is moving the 2021 All-Star Game and 2021 draft out of Atlanta in response to a new Georgia voting law that critics say unfairly limits access to the ballot box, especially for people of color. “Over the last week, we have engaged in thoughtful conversations with Clubs, former and current players, the Players Association, and …

“It’s time to teach corporate America that if they attack Georgia or any state like it for doing what they did to secure their right to vote, these corporations are going to face the wrath of GOP officials as well as the tens of millions of American consumers who support them. That means lobbyists and CEOs, they need to be …

Via press release from American Airlines: Earlier this morning, the Texas State Senate passed legislation with provisions that limit voting access. To make American’s stance clear: We are strongly opposed to this bill and others like it. As a Texas-based business, we must stand up for the rights of our team members and customers who call Texas home, and honor …

Forbes reports: Georgia Republicans voted to strip Delta Air Lines of a jet fuel tax break worth tens of millions of dollars Wednesday after the company u-turned to unequivocally condemn the state’s widely-criticized voting restrictions, joining a growing list of executives who have criticized the new restrictions amid a debate over boycotting Georgia’s biggest companies. The state Senate did not …

The Texas Tribune reports: Senate Republicans cleared the way Thursday for new, sweeping restrictions to voting in Texas that take particular aim at forbidding local efforts meant to widen access. In an overnight vote after more than seven hours of debate, the Texas Senate signed off on Senate Bill 7, which would limit extended early voting hours, prohibit drive-thru voting …

The Hill reports: Shapiro said that “Jim Crow explicitly created a separate system of law for Black Americans and treated them as inferior,” adding, “there’s nothing in the law like that.” “That’s not only an overstatement, it’s just an outright lie,” he argued. Shapiro then referenced claims that voters of color in Georgia “faced hours-long queues at the polls,” pushing …

CBS News reports: President Biden says he’d “strongly support” moving the Major League Baseball All-Star game out of Atlanta as a rebuke to strict new voting restrictions in the state. The president said on ESPN Wednesday night that the curbs are “just not right.” “This is Jim Crow on steroids, what they are doing in Georgia and 40 other states,” …

Atlanta’s ABC News affiliate reports: In a memo obtained by Channel 2 Action News and ABC News, Delta CEO Ed Bastian called Georgia’s new election laws “unacceptable” and “based on a lie.” It is the strongest statement that the Atlanta-based company has released regarding its opposition to the election overhaul. Delta’s initial response to the bill did not make a …

Politico reports: Florida may bar outside groups from giving food or water to voters standing within 150 feet of polling places, a provision that is drawing comparisons to a much broader prohibition included in a contentious election bill recently enacted in nearby Georgia. “It’s influencing the vote and that’s what we are trying to stop because they are a captive …

Via press release from the NAACP: Civil rights groups have filed a new federal lawsuit against Georgia’s sweeping law that makes it much harder for all Georgians to vote, particularly voters of color, new citizens, and religious communities. The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Georgia, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and …

The Associated Press reports: Cleta Mitchell, a longtime Republican lawyer and advocate for conservative causes, was among the Trump advisers on a January phone call in which Trump asked Georgia election officials to “find” enough votes to declare him, and not Democrat Joe Biden, the winner of the battleground state. Now Mitchell has taken the helm of two separate efforts …

Salon reports: Republican state lawmakers who have rolled out more than 250 bills to restrict ballot access in more than 40 states, largely in response to President Donald Trump’s false claims about election fraud, are receiving financial backing from an unusual coalition of Christian and “small government” groups. The Family Research Council, the Susan B. Anthony List and the American …

NBC News reports: President Joe Biden on Friday condemned the sweeping new voting restrictions in Georgia as “outrageous,” “un-American” and “Jim Crow in the 21st Century.” “This law, like so many others being pursued by Republicans in statehouses across the country is a blatant attack on the Constitution and good conscience,” Biden said in a statement. The president’s statement comes …

News One reports: Adding insult to injury, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp appeared to metaphorically thumb his nose at his Black critics in particular by signing the state’s voter suppression bill into law while seated in front of a painting of a “back-breaking” plantation that “thrived” from slave labor. Kemp signed the bill Thursday evening amid national outcry at the restrictions …

ABC News reports: A lawsuit has been filed challenging Georgia’s new law imposing voting restrictions. The 35-page lawsuit has been filed by three voting rights groups claiming the law violates voters’ rights and will make it harder for lawful Georgia voters to take part in state elections. The lawsuit says SB 202 will impose unnecessary and burdensome new identification requirements …

The Hill reports: Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday condemned a sweeping elections bill signed into law by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R), calling the legislation “despicable” and vowing to take action against it. The controversial law, passed by a party-line vote just hours earlier by the GOP-controlled state General assembly, tightens voting laws by limiting the use …

The Huffington Post reports: Georgia state Rep. Park Cannon (D) was arrested and charged with felony obstruction on Thursday night after she protested the signing of a restrictive new bill that will dramatically limit access to voting for communities of color. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution first reported that Cannon, a Black woman who has served in the Georgia House of Representatives …

The Associated Press reports: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday signed into law a sweeping Republican-sponsored overhaul of state elections that includes new restrictions on voting by mail and gives the legislature greater control over how elections are run. Democrats and voting rights groups say the law will disproportionately disenfranchise voters of color. It is part of a wave of …

CNN reports: Georgia’s sweeping Republican-backed election-law overhaul bill was sent immediately to the state Senate after it was passed earlier Thursday by the state’s House of Representatives, setting up a final vote on changes that would restrict voter access in a state that was pivotal in giving Democrats control of the White House and US Senate this year. The Republican-led …