A federal judge on Monday ordered two Georgia counties to reverse a decision purging more than 4,000 voters from the rolls ahead of the Jan. 5 runoff elections.
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The judge, Leslie Abrams Gardner, is the sister of former Dem candidate for governor in Georgia Stacy Abrams.
“I believe that each of the individuals named as a result of registering their name and change of address to a location outside of Muscogee County, removed to another state with the intention of making the new state their residence,” a local voter named Ralph Russell who made the challenge said.
“Thus, each individual has lost their residence in Muscogee County, and consequently, each individual is ineligible to vote in Muscogee County.”
Gardner’s 11-page ruling released Monday night noted that the removals of the voters appeared to violate federal law because they were not given proper notice and because they qualify as the type of systematic voter roll cleaning that is not permitted within 90 days of a federal election.
The Muscogee board filed a motion earlier Monday arguing that Gardner must remove herself from the case based on her relationship with her sister, Abrams.
Lawyers for the board, described Abrams as “a Georgia politician and voting rights activist who was the Democratic candidate in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election and has since engaged in various highly publicized efforts to increase voter registration and turnout for the 2020 general election in Georgia.”
The motion requesting Gardner’s recusal noted that a voter registration group affiliated with Abrams, Fair Fight, filed a suit in another federal court in Georgia last week complaining that a national organization dedicated to targeting voter fraud, True the Vote, is making unjustified challenges to Georgia voters in the lead-up to the Jan. 5 runoffs.
“Abrams’ involvement in the Fair Fight Litigation … is sufficient to satisfy the standard for mandatory judicial recusal,” the board’s attorneys wrote. “Abrams has a clear interest in the outcome of this proceeding and other similarly situated litigation in Georgia due to her voting advocacy through projects such as Fair Fight and the New Georgia Project.”
A federal judge in Georgia on Monday ordered two counties to reverse a decision removing more than 4,000 voters from the rolls…
The judge, Leslie Abrams Gardner — the sister of former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams….https://t.co/i6Ny4eub0z
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puhiawa
3 years ago
This ruling allows a voter to vote for both Democratic Senators.
Every State has a similar law. This is the first time it has been challenged. Note that the federal law cited is inapplicable because the voter is not prohibited from voting, just in another district from which they do not reside.
joe shmoe
3 years ago
how is it she didnt recuse herself? the bias is seething
Democrats don’t care because they own the media and they have enough of a stranglehold on the DOJ that they no longer have to worry about lawful peaceful means of push back.
Oh that’s hilarious ed because…have you seen Sis? She’s as morbidly obese as Stacey! Them gals grew up gobblin’ everything in sight, and now they’ve been promoted ‘WAY beyond their abilities because RAAACCCCISSSSSMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stacey a Harvard grad? Leslie a Fed judge? Seriously? Look at this thing:&exph=372&expw=616&q=leslie+abrams&simid=608052517876663801&ck=BDC85F7FD2706EA28A432D218B691DA7&selectedIndex=20&FORM=IRPRST&ajaxhist=0
It seems the DemoNazis are not only above the law, they are the law. They can steal, murder, steal and spy with impunity and immunity.
The Bovine Party chews its cud and does nothing as they are being lead to the slaughterhouse. Moo moo, says the duplicitous Mitch McConnell.
Nothing is ever done. The DemoNazis laugh at us as they control every lever of our society.
We are all doomed. Arm yourselves as the police and military serve their DemoNazi masters. They will come for you just as they serve all these unconstitutional COVID rules meant to break Western civilization.
Georgia Secretary of State: Ruling From Obama-Appointed Judge ‘Strikes Blow to Rule of Law’
BY ZACHARY STIEBER
December 29, 2020
The ruling blocking two counties from removing voters who appeared to have changed addresses from voter rolls struck a blow to the rule of law, according to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
“This ruling is a direct attack on rule of law in Georgia and the integrity of elections in this state, and I will not stand for it,” the Republican said in a statement on Tuesday.
“Without even hearing from Muscogee County, a President Obama-appointed judge has decided to overturn the express will of Georgia law and the county elections officers around the state who follow it,” he added.
District Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner, an Obama appointee, issued the ruling late Monday.
She said plaintiffs who sued Ben Hill and Muscogee counties appeared correct when they asserted the county election boards violated the National Voter Registration Act and portions of the U.S. Constitution when moving forward with the removal of thousands of voters from voter rolls.
Boards in each county voted this month to approve removals, after challenges from fellow voters that relied on the U.S. Postal Service’s National Change of Address system. The system, and supporting commercial databases, showed that voters moved within Georgia to a different county from which they’re registered or from Georgia to another state, the challengers alleged.
Gardner said the challenges come too close to the Jan. 5, 2021, Senate runoff elections and ruled that the counties must let the voters in question cast ballots in the runoffs.
Gardner is the sister of Stacey Abrams, a Democrat who ran for governor in 2018. After her loss, she began organizing voter rights efforts.
The lawsuit was brought by nonprofit Majority Forward.
According to Raffensperger’s office, Abrams’s organization Fair Fight donated $2.5 million to Senate Majority PAC, for which the plaintiff Majority Forward serves as the nonprofit arm. Senate Majority PAC is affiliated with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).
“That a judge would rule on case brought by a group heavily funded by her sister is very concerning,” Raffensperger said in a statement.
Majority Forward and Fair Fight didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Hours before the ruling, the Muscogee County Board of Elections and Registration filed a motion calling on Gardner to recuse herself. Gardner wrote in a footnote in her order that the court “has reviewed the motion and finds no basis for recusal.” She said she would explain her reasoning in a forthcoming order.
this is why Trump is suing WI in SCOUS becuse 230,000 of these rolls were not removed under our state law and why Trump lost WI. We tried to remove them but the WI Supreme Court refused because it was inconvenient.
Bill
3 years ago
If this isn’t overturned on appeal, then they’re looking at war.
Civil War is to messy. Martial Law is more orderly.
Chris Wolf
3 years ago
Trump went to his first debate suffering the initial symptoms of China Virus.
And Perdue can’t even SHOW UP?!!!
AT ALL?!!!!
Then his tactic is to make some canned crack about his opponent took on an empty podium — AND LOST!!!!
Hahahahhahhahahahhahahhahahahahahahhahahahah!!!
Perdue — Hahahhahhahhahahahhahahahhahahhahahahahhahahha!!
WTF!
Perdue sat around on his ass while the Negro stole his state on his watch.
Now he’s waiting it out while the Negro stealings his country.
And begging us to … wait for it … SUPPORT HIM!!!!
LOSE-R
Emmett
3 years ago
What ” CRACKA JACK ” box did this POS. find a law degree ? Yobama’s. AZZ !
Daniel FX Dravot
3 years ago
Personal observation:
Stacey Abrams is ugly. So ugly, so repellent, so loathsome, so clueless, this disgusting egotist represents all that is evil, ignorant and debased in American politics.
She is the embodiment of the Democrat Party. As a party symbol she is the perfect replacement for the jackass.
She is so ugly even the tide wouldn’t take her out.
Besides all that.
Do you like her?
Happy New year Daniel.
T.A. Parnell
3 years ago
MORE COMMIE DEMS
LostAllSanity
3 years ago
This proves, at least to me, that Trump and Trump Patriots are trying to follow the Rule of Law while the Democrats look us in the face, laugh and do whatever they damn well want to do.
Anyone else feel the same??
SK
3 years ago
You just can’t make this stuff up.
Bob
3 years ago
Some ignorant affirmative action parasite thinks she is god and can dictate whatever from her ivory tower. Loser democrats, please excuse the proper use of gender pronouns.
Bob
3 years ago
Can we riot and loot the 7-11 with no consequence, as the democrats do when they get upset?
durabo
3 years ago
Not exactly starving waifs, are they?
Laddyboy
3 years ago
Recuse?? COME ON MAN!!! This “judge” must not only be RECUSED but also REMOVED and DISBARRED for her involvement in VOTER FRAUD!!!!
idahobob
3 years ago
Corruption in the judiciary? You think?
Greytigertx
3 years ago
Impeach the communist b***h.
ed
3 years ago
Stacey will be the model of the new diet fad. Slim-Slow.
ed
3 years ago
Stacey is clearly a racist. The only 2 white people she ever liked:
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