Political Rewind: Judge orders partial release of Fulton election probe; GOP on trans health care

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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney instructs potential jurors during proceedings to seat a special purpose grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, on Monday, May 2, 2022. Yesterday, he ordered the partial release of the grand jury's findings

Credit: AP Photo/Ben Gray, File

The panel: 

Amy Steigerwalt, @DrSteigerwalt, professor of political science, Georgia State University

Matt Brown, @mrbrownsir, democracy reporter, The Washington Post

Maya Prabhu, @MayaTPrabhu, government reporter, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Tamar Hallerman, @TamarHallerman, senior reporter, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The breakdown: 

1. A judge grants the release of parts of a grand jury report in a Georgia election probe.

• Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in an eight-page order released Monday that there are due process concerns for people that the report names as likely violators of state law.
  •  But he found that three sections that do not mention specifics can be released on Thursday.

2. Culture wars continue in the legislature. 

• State Sen. Clint Dixon, (R-Gwinnett). introduced Senate Bill 141. 
  • It would prevent doctors from giving transgender minors surgery or hormone therapy.
• Maya Prabhu adds that the "Parents and Children Protection Act" has a hearing in the state legislature this afternoon. 

3. Attorneys general from 23 GOP-led states back suit seeking to block abortion pill. 

• Georgia is one of more than two dozen Republican states backing a lawsuit that would ban the abortion pill  throughout the United States.
  • The lawsuit would eliminate the option even in states where abortion access remains legal.
• The lawsuit argues, on behalf of four anti-abortion medical organizations and four anti-abortion physicians, that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration exceeded its authority when it approved mifepristone to end pregnancies in 2000.

Wednesday on Political Rewind: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Greg Bluestein joins the panel.