Author: Sara
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Come Support Elena Parent Tuesday, September 28th!
What: Fundraiser and reception for House District 81 candidate Elena Parent When: Tuesday, Septmber 28th from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Where: The home of Rep. Pat Gardner, 668 E. Pelham Rd NE, Atlanta GA 30324 Despite how bleak the political landscape can sometimes appear for Georgia Democrats, this year we have at least one excellent opportunity to pick up…
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The end of the line for Troy Davis?
This morning, the U.S. District Court judge who heard two days of evidence in the Troy Davis case as ordered by the Supreme Court ruled that Davis’ team had not demonstrated his actual innocence or his entitlement to a new trial. This is probably the end of the line for Davis, as Judge William T. Moore…
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The sad, strange tale of Alvin Green gets sadder and stranger
Today, Alvin Green, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in South Carolina and favorite topic of conversation around these parts, was indicted on felony obscenity charges for showing pornographic material to a college student last year. Greene was previously arrested on the charge in November, so it isn’t entirely out of left field, but the indictment…
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CA “Prop 8” Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional
The U.S. District Court judge hearing the challenge to California’s Proposition 8 referendum banning gay marriage has just ruled it unconstitutional and granted a permanent injunction against its enforcement. Read the entire Order (138 pages of it) here. I haven’t read it yet, but I hear it found the law unconstitutional on both due process…
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“We’re in trouble in Georgia.”
Yesterday’s New York Times had a depressingly bleak story cataloguing all the problems with Georgia’s chronically underfunded public defender system, in which former state Supreme Court justice Arthur Fletcher made the statement above. The article was prompted by a recent Georgia Supreme Court ruling that a death penalty defendant should have accepted the public defenders appointed for him by now-resigned…
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Hope you haven’t forgotten about Troy Davis…
On June 23rd, Troy Davis will finally get an evidentiary hearing on his habeas corpus petition down in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia in Savannah. (If you are wondering “who the heck is this Davis guy?” right now, first slap yourself hard for being uninformed, and second, read here.) So why…