Georgia

39 Results / Page 2 of 5

News

Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is considering a run for governor of Georgia

Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta who ushered the city through COVID and the George Floyd uprising in May 2020, is heading back to Georgia and back into Georgia politics. Bottoms hinted at a run for the Georgia governor’s office in a recent interview with Jorge Estevez of Atlanta’s WSB-TV.  When asked about whether or not there was an office she might be considering running for in the state, Bottoms made mention of one particular race.  “Well, there […]

todayJanuary 24, 2025 1

News

Georgia election workers seek more penalties against Giuliani, saying he continues to defame them

Two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against Rudy Giuliani asked a judge Wednesday to penalize him even further for continuing to falsely accuse them of tampering with ballots during the 2020 presidential election. Attorneys for Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, argued in a filing in a Washington, D.C. federal court that Giuliani has “brazenly” violated an agreement he signed to stop repeating the falsehoods. The alleged violations came in statements he made during two recent […]

todayNovember 22, 2024 1

News

Georgia appeals court cancels hearing in election interference case against Trump

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia appeals court on Monday canceled oral arguments that were scheduled for next month on the appeal of a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against President-elect Donald Trump. Trump and other defendants had asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to hold oral arguments in the case, and the court had set those arguments for Dec. 5. But in a one-line order with no […]

todayNovember 19, 2024

News

Fani Willis, Georgia prosecutor pursuing election case against Donald Trump, is reelected

ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor who brought charges against former President Donald Trump over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has won her bid for reelection. Willis, a Democrat, defeated Republican challenger Courtney Kramer, who had interned in the White House counsel’s office during the Trump presidency and is active in GOP organizations. Fulton County, which is home to 11% of the state’s electorate and includes most of the city of Atlanta, is a Democratic […]

todayNovember 9, 2024 1

News

Fani Willis, Georgia prosecutor who brought election case against Trump, faces rare Republican challenger

ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the Democratic Georgia prosecutor who brought charges against former President Donald Trump over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, faces a rare Republican challenger in her bid for reelection in the state’s most populous county. Courtney Kramer, a lawyer who interned in the White House counsel’s office under Trump, said she wants to bring transparency and accountability to the office. But Willis, who easily fended off a challenge from the left in May’s Democratic […]

todayOctober 28, 2024 1

News

Rudy Giuliani ordered to turn over NYC apartment, 26 watches to Georgia election workers

Rudy Giuliani must turn over sports memorabilia and other prized possessions to two Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him, including his New York City apartment, more than two dozen luxury watches and a 1980 Mercedes once owned by movie star Lauren Bacall, a judge ruled Tuesday. But U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman in Manhattan also said Giuliani does not have to give the election workers three New York Yankees World Series rings or his Florida condominium — […]

todayOctober 24, 2024 2

News

In battleground Georgia, some poor people see no reason to vote. That decision could sway election

MACON, Ga. (AP) — Sabrina Friday scanned the room at Mother’s Nest, an organization in Macon that provides baby supplies, training, food and housing to mothers in need, and she asked how many planned to vote. Of the 30, mostly women, six raised their hands. Friday, the group’s executive director, said she tries to stress civic duty, an often difficult proposition given the circumstances of her clients. “When a mom is in a hotel room and there’s six or seven […]

todayOctober 22, 2024 1

News

Congressional Black Caucus launches Harris campaign bus tour in Georgia

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are set to launch a national bus tour in support of the Harris-Walz campaign, with the first stop this weekend in the battleground state of Georgia, theGrio has learned exclusively. The CBC, often referred to as the “conscience” of Congress, is a highly influential group on Capitol Hill. It represents millions of voters across key states that will be critical for Vice President Kamala Harris to secure victory in November. This weekend’s tour […]

todayOctober 18, 2024

News

Harris hands out meals, consoles families as she surveys Hurricane Helene devastation in Georgia

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris handed out meals, embraced a shaken family and surveyed Hurricane Helene’s “extraordinary” path of destruction through Georgia on Wednesday as she left the campaign trail to pledge federal help and personally take in scenes of toppled trees, damaged homes and lives upended. She visited Augusta, where power lines stretched along the sidewalk and utility poles lay cracked and broken. The vice president spoke from a lectern erected in front of a house with a fallen tree […]

todayOctober 3, 2024 1