Tag: Campaigns+Elections
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The ‘conspiracy’ continues
The Georgia Supreme Court just issued a unanimous decision that says the state can continue to use electronic touchscreen voting machines in elections and rejects the argument that these machines are unconstitutional because they can be fraudulently manipulated. The high court’s ruling was logical, rational and intelligently reasoned — which means we can look forward…
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The Voting Rights Act survives, for now
In a decision that virtually no court watchers saw coming, the U.S. Supreme Court today dispensed with the constitutional challenge to the pre-clearance requirement of the Voting Rights Act by, in essence, creating a technicality. Back when this case was argued before SCOTUS, most readers of tea leaves believed that the Justices’ questions to counsel…
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The ethics of elected judges
This morning the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that could have huge impact here in Georgia and in every state in which judges are elected. In a story that could be straight out of a John Grisham novel, a West Virginia coal company lost a case at trial to the tune of $50 million. The coal company’s…