Georgia's highest court is overturning four rules passed by the State Election Board, saying that the board overstepped its authority and intruded on lawmaking power reserved for legislators under Georgia's constitution.
The Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments about a controversial zoning decision that threatens to change the character of an historic Gullah Geechee enclave in McIntosh County.
Georgia lawmakers are retreating from some controversial election proposals. A proposed bill would no longer allow the Donald Trump-aligned State Election Board to possibly strike thousands of challenged voters from the rolls.
Georgia Chief Justice Michael P. Boggs announced Tuesday that he will step down from the Georgia Supreme Court at the end of March, less than a year after voters re-elected him to another six-year term.
A judge has ruled that a Georgia railroad can buy land against the will of property owners to build a track. The Tuesday ruling rejects a challenge that a libertarian group hoped could make it harder to use eminent domain to take property.
How the legal precedent of sovereign immunity could change the way housing authorities in Georgia are held responsible in cases where tenants allege harm.
Georgia’s State Election Board voted Monday to request state lawmakers pass legislation next year making voter lists readily available to the public before and after elections.
The Georgia Supreme Court issued two rulings Thursday that upheld the arrests of two Democratic state lawmakers for protesting inside the state Capitol and declared constitutional a state tax levied on adult entertainment establishments.
The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by national and state Republicans to immediately reinstate recently passed election rules that a judge had ruled were invalid. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox last week ruled that the State Election Board didn't have the authority to adopt the new rules.
The state and national Republican parties are appealing a judge's ruling that said seven election rules recently passed by Georgia's State Election Board are "illegal, unconstitutional and void." The Republicans want to overturn a ruling from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox, who on Wednesday ruled that the board did not have the authority to pass the rules.
