Blog for Democracy

Category: Law

  • Abortion is a Trans Right

    Fetal Heartbeats & Gender Stereotypes: How Georgia’s Abortion Bill Harms Transgender People- Guest Post by Harris R. Mason Esq. Mr. Mason is currently the Superior Court Clerk for the Alapaha Judicial Circuit and a Board Member of the Stonewall Bar Association of Georgia “Women are to be good wives and mothers.” This is one of…

  • David Cooke for Macon Circuit District Attorney

    More on this impressive candidate here.

  • Backatcha Olry Taitz

    Sometimes it is horrifyingly embarrassing to live in Georgia.  Take the current legal challenge to President Obama’s name appearing on the Presidential Preference Ballot because he is not a natural-born US Citizen.  I think when we heard about this we thought it would be quietly dismissed.  But, no!  Not in Georgia.  The Administrative Law Judge…

  • Judicial Ethics & Qualifications, yawn

    Seriously, should we be yawning about this? I think not. I realize the political news today is mostly about the “Cainwreak” that is/was his cray-cray campaign, but buried down in the twitter verse was a fascinating story about a possibly little known GA agency called the Judicial Qualifications Commission. The Judicial Qualifications Commission — which…

  • Get Involved

    Southern Center for Human Rights Georgia Innocence Project Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty  

  • Rep. Holcomb’s Letter re: Troy Davis

    First, let me note that the current issue regarding Troy Davis is whether the Board of Pardons and Parole should grant clemency based on its own declared standard: “will not allow an execution to proceed in this state unless and until its members are convinced that there is no doubt as to the guilt of…