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Title: Fun with 'liberals'! "Look at What GOP in Georgia Just Pulled Off"
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URL Source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2 ... ion-look-what-gop-georgia-just
Published: May 19, 2020
Author: Higgins
Post Date: 2020-05-19 22:14:40 by NeoconsNailed
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Views: 1046
Comments: 8

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will be permitted to hand-pick the state's next Supreme Court Justice after that same high court ruled last week that a special election set for Tuesday could be canceled.

Kemp and his Secretary of State, Brad Raffensberger, moved to cancel voting in the state earlier this year after state Supreme Court Justice Keith Blackwell announced he would step down after his six- year term expires at the end of 2020.

Taking the matter of who should succeed Blackwell into his own hands will allow Kemp, a Republican, to appoint another right-wing judge to serve on the highest court in the state for at least two years. Like the U.S. Supreme Court, the nine-member Georgia Supreme Court— though most of its member recused themselves from ruling on this case—enjoys a Republican majority.

Both the Democratic and Republican former lawmakers who were running for the seat—John Barrow and Beth Beskin—filed lawsuits to have the election reinstated, but the state Supreme Court sided with Kemp last week in a 6-2 vote.

Kemp narrowly won his 2018 gubernatorial race while serving as Secretary of State, a role in which he purged 53,000 mostly African- American voters from the state rolls.

On Tuesday, radio host Joe Madison called the governor's move an attempt at "rigging" another state election.

Six of the state's Supreme Court justices recused themselves from the case, forcing five lower court judges to participate in handing down the ruling.

As Ian Millhiser explained at Vox, the Georgia state Constitution makes Kemp and Raffensberger's actions technically legal:

The court's decision in Barrow turns on the tension between two provisions of the Georgia Constitution. The first provides that "all Justices of the Supreme Court and the Judges of the Court of Appeals shall be elected on a nonpartisan basis for a term of six years," and that the terms of these judges "shall begin the next January 1 after their election." Because this language refers to "all Justices," it suggests that an election must be held to fill Blackwell's seat, and that whoever prevails in that election shall join the state Supreme Court on the first of January.

When Athens-Clarke and Oconee County DA Brian Mauldin, a Democrat, announced in February that he would not seek another term, Mauldin asked the governor to appoint an interim DA "promptly" so former state lawmaker Deborah Gonzalez, who was planning to run as a progressive reformer, could run against the interim DA in November.

"Kemp, however, did no such thing," wrote Jay Willis at The Appeal last week. "By failing to act by May 3, six months before Election Day 2020, he ensured that whoever he eventually picks won't face a challenger until Election Day 2022 at the earliest. Gonzalez, the would-be reformer, will have to wait until then for a shot."

"As governor, Kemp has pivoted from hollowing out democratic elections to simply cancelling them," added Willis.

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Poster Comment:

I have not heard such beautiful 'liberal' screaming and yelling in a long time -- because, for once, it's apparently about something like an actual conservative. There are richy whiny tweets there I couldn't copy to paste -- catch them too. Beth Beskin -- that has to be a jew name like Baskin as in Robbins and Batkin as the longtime peacher at a local Episco church.

And to think that the gov was among the first to reopen his state -- only in Dixie!

Look how the state constitution allows everything they're complaining about. You'll never get that when Dummacrats are "stealing an election"! FORGET MUSK -- KEMP FOR PREZ! ;)

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#1. To: NeoconsNailed (#0)

Gonzalez

Is that a Ukranian name?

Dakmar  posted on  2020-05-19   22:19:06 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Dakmar (#1)

No -- Irish ;)

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2020-05-19   22:56:05 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: NeoconsNailed (#2)

No -- Irish ;)

No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs

The written word need not be a lie…

Dakmar  posted on  2020-05-19   23:05:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Dakmar (#4)

It'll sell millions with a whiny 'liberal' title like that ;)

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2020-05-19   23:40:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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