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Botany

(70,488 posts)
Tue Mar 28, 2023, 10:08 AM Mar 2023

Georgia bill is latest GOP effort targeting prosecutors

Source: AP

ATLANTA (AP) — A new Georgia commission to discipline and remove wayward prosecutors would be the latest move nationwide to ratchet up oversight on what Republicans see as “woke prosecutors” who aren’t doing enough to fight crime.

The Georgia House voted 97-77 on Monday for Senate Bill 92 to create the commission. The Senate later sent the measure to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature or veto. Kemp has previously voiced support for the concept.

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Carissa Hessick, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the Republican push tries to reverse a sea change in prosecution. Hessick, who directs the Prosecutors and Politics Project, said that for the first time voters are confronted with meaningful debate about prosecutors’ policies.

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has decried the measure, claiming it’s a racist attack after voters elected 14 nonwhite district attorneys in Georgia in 2020. Willis pushed herself to the center of the controversy even as she’s mulling charges against former President Donald Trump for interfering in Georgia’s 2020 election. Some have viewed it as Republican retribution against the Atlanta prosecutor.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/georgia-prosecutor-district-attorney-remove-discipline-dd06c56d0d0672e38ef11f4c63dda468



"They" know Trump is guilty, they know that people in Georgia tried to sign up as un-elected
electors to present false ballots to change the outcome of the 2020 Presidential elections
which is illegal, and they don't give a shit about the rule of law. "They" don't want certain people
to vote or have their votes counted.

This is a Christo-Fascist move by people who can't accept the legal outcome to elections.

"The effort was born from frustrations involving a white Republican prosecutor in suburban Atlanta who was indicted for bribery related to sexual harassment claims. He lingered until he pleaded guilty to unprofessional conduct and resigned in 2022."
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Georgia bill is latest GOP effort targeting prosecutors (Original Post) Botany Mar 2023 OP
"aren't doing enough to fight crime." Rich, that bucolic_frolic Mar 2023 #1
Or these Georgians signing up to be fake electors in order to deliver phony ballots ... Botany Mar 2023 #3
Who wrote this piece of anti democracy legislation....ALEC Vthestate Mar 2023 #2
Welcome to DU! KS Toronado Mar 2023 #5
It's like Netanyahu's tyranny of the majority. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2023 #4
Not doing enough to fight crime?? Then CONVICT Trump for election crimes. Bengus81 Mar 2023 #6
ALEC orangecrush Mar 2023 #7

bucolic_frolic

(43,123 posts)
1. "aren't doing enough to fight crime." Rich, that
Tue Mar 28, 2023, 10:19 AM
Mar 2023

from the party enabling every trigger-happy low life in America

Botany

(70,488 posts)
3. Or these Georgians signing up to be fake electors in order to deliver phony ballots ...
Tue Mar 28, 2023, 10:31 AM
Mar 2023

...in order to tip the presidential election to the man who lost the election how many laws did
they break?



Vthestate

(6 posts)
2. Who wrote this piece of anti democracy legislation....ALEC
Tue Mar 28, 2023, 10:27 AM
Mar 2023

We get a knee jerk reaction to reactionary BS in the red / purple state houses (and red to pink AP coverage) - ALEC(American Legislative Exchange Council) )churns out the radical right wing shadow policy and prefab legislation ....one stop trip back to the 1950's...just change the cover page and associated press never asks why.

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