The U.S. 11th District Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on Friday in the case of Georgia’s controversial law HB 481, also known as the “heartbeat bill” because it would ban abortions after a doctor can detect a fetus’ heartbeat. But judges were wary to push the case forward as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to take up Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a case from Mississippi that bans most abortions after 15 weeks.
Former President Donald Trump's rally in Perry on Saturday promises to end with a fireworks show, but the real fireworks have come from his singular focus on upending Republican politics in Georgia after losing in 2020.
Friday on Political Rewind: A federal appeals court took up the question of Georgia's controversial abortion statute. The law, which would effectively outlaw abortion, never went into effect because of a lower court ruling. Also, Gov. Brian Kemp issued the formal call for a special session of the General Assembly to redraw Georgia's political maps.
Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black is one of the most popular politicians in Georgia, but even that might not be enough to win the Republican U.S. Senate primary in 2022.
Flight attendants have been subject to unprecedented harassment over masks and more during the pandemic, and a U.S. House panel on Thursday heard the raw details of those “air rage” incidents.
The fourth surge of the coronavirus is subsiding in Georgia, but health care workers are exhausted, hospital leaders said Thursday during a panel at this year’s Health Connect South conference.
Thursday’s hearing came a week after the U.S. Justice Department announced it has opened an investigation into conditions inside Georgia’s prisons following complaints from civil rights groups and others who have expressed concerns about inmate safety.
Thursday on Political Rewind: This week marks 115 years since a white mob went on a four-day rampage through a Black community in Atlanta. Twenty-five Black residents were murdered and hundreds more were terrorized. We looked back at that history with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'sErnie Suggs.
Interviews with Georgia lawmakers involved with redistricting in previous years shine light on the complicated deliberations that go into the mapmaking — and the acknowledgement that maintaining power for the majority takes precedence over expressed interests of voters — so long as the law is being followed.
The Georgia State Election Board approved several voting rule changes Tuesday to help implement the massive 98-page election bill signed into earlier this year.
Wednesday on Political Rewind: Stacey Abrams did not take the bait at a sold-out event in San Antonio, Texas, to declare her intentions to run for governor next year. Meanwhile, Brad Raffensperger took the first steps in a virtual tour to begin promoting his new book on how he fought the former president’s heated efforts to have Georgia’s election results overturned.
The Georgia State Election Board approved several rule changes Tuesday impacting how elections are run.
Democrat and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams kicked off a nationwide tour of red and blue states, but remains mum on her immediate political future.
