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Georgia investigators are looking into Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani‘s conversations with state lawmakers during the fallout of the 2020 election. During his session with Georgia officials, Giuliani spread false theories about the election and asked the lawmakers to appoint new electors. Investigators are seeing if any crimes were committed in these attempts. Prosecutors created a special purpose grand jury to investigate if Trump and Giuliani broke any Georgia laws during their campaign to overturn election results. Currently, the Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is scrutinizing Giuli...
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Georgia Senate candidateHerschel Walker has pushed back after former President Donald Trump made claims about being responsible for Walker’s primary win. In an interview with Revolt TV Host Killer Mike, Walker said Trump never publicly asked him to run. “I heard it all on television that, ‘He’s going to ask Herschel,’ saying Herschel is going to run. President Trump never came out and said, ‘Herschel, will you run for that Senate seat?’” Walker, a former football star for the Dallas Cowboys, has made headlines recently after his victory in the Georgia Republican Senate primary. He has used bot...
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Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that the Department of Justice is suing the state of Georgia over its new voting law that could significantly restrict ballot access for its citizens. “Today, the Department of Justice is suing the state of Georgia,” Garland said. “Our complaint alleges that recent changes to Georgia’s election laws were enacted with the purpose of denying or abridging the right of black Georgians to vote on account of their race or color, in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.” Georgia’s Senate Bill 202, 98-page instructions that impose restrictio...
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When asked President Joe Biden said he would be in favor of moving the MLB All-Star out of Georgia, where is currently scheduled, as a protest of the new severe voting restrictions hastily passed by the state’s legislature. Since the voting restrictions passed in Georgia, several MLB players and officials have urged leadership to move the All-Star game out of Truist Park in Atlanta. “I think today’s professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly,” Biden said in response to their calls. “I would strongly support them doing that. People look to them. They’re leaders.” “Look at what’s ha...
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Georgia lawmakers recently passed a massive voter restriction bill that will make giving food or water to voters standing in line a misdemeanor crime. The bill seeks to expand existing laws that prohibit offering gifts to voters at polls. Prior to March 2021, there was a loophole in the existing law regarding “gifts” for voters waiting in line – voting-rights groups could legally supply free food or water to voters, so long as they made the amenities available to everyone – including passersby. However, on March 25, the Georgia General Assembly decided to update existing state provisions in or...
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Democrats appear poised to gain control of the Senate, following Georgia’s two runoff elections Tuesday. The Associated Press called the race for Democratic challenger Rev. Raphael Warnock last night, who defeated GOP incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler. Warnock will become Georgia’s first Black senator, illustrating a far cry from the era when his own mother worked as a share cropper. “The 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a United States senator,” said Warnock in his live-streamed victory speech. “The improbable journey t...
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President Donald Trump‘s relationship with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) has soured following the presidential election in which the state flipped blue — the first time since 1992. Kemp has not echoed the president’s unfounded accusations of widespread voter fraud and certified its election results, giving 16 electoral votes to President-elect Joe Biden He told Fox News last week that he was ashamed he had endorsed Kemp for governor and continued to put pressure on him this week, telling him to “call off” the Jan. 5 Senate runoff races. “You allowed your state to be scammed,” Trump wrote to Kemp...
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