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Georgia Judge Denies GOP Lawsuit on Drop Boxes, Says State Has Immunity
NewsMax ^ | 12/24/2020 | Brian Trusdell

Posted on 12/25/2020 9:43:11 AM PST by RideForever

A judge from Fulton County which includes Atlanta has dismissed a lawsuit by the Republican Party seeking to limit the use of voter drop boxes for Georgia’s two U.S. Senate runoff races saying the state has immunity from being sued, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Thursday. Superior Court Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams ruled she doesn’t have jurisdiction because of sovereign immunity that protects governments from lawsuits, the Journal-Constitution said. Republicans had argued that drop boxes should be limited to the same hours as county election offices, which typically close at 5 p.m. on weekdays. But an attorney for the Georgia secretary of state’s office said the state election board approved the boxes to be used at all hours.

Famed attorney Lin Wood sued the Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in November claiming that he unlawfully changed election law in March to settle a lawsuit by Georgia Democrats, something he said the state constitution expressly grants to the legislature. Incumbent Republicans Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are facing Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in Jan. 5 runoffs after none of the candidates received more than 50% of the vote. While Perdue received only a few thousand votes shy of the 50% threshold, Warnock led Loeffler 33% to 26%. However, Loeffler and fellow Republican Doug Collins, plus four other Republicans in a race with 20 candidates, received a combined 49.3% of the vote compared to about 48.4% for Warnock and the next seven Democrats.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters
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How does this 'judge' keep a membership in the BAR Association?

The law authorizing the lock boxes (in violation of state election laws) EXPIRED before the election started, so there is no 'immunity' from illegal actions. And there should be none for this inept judge ... So inept, in fact, that the UNLAWFUL election for allowing non-voters in the Senate election being continued in the runoff to vote in violation of state election law went unmentioned.

1 posted on 12/25/2020 9:43:11 AM PST by RideForever
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To: RideForever

That is NOT the sort of thing that ordinarily comes under a sovereign immunity.


2 posted on 12/25/2020 9:46:26 AM PST by jimfree (My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quiality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: RideForever

Just more pointing to the fact the State Legislatures have to do something. Not the courts.


3 posted on 12/25/2020 9:47:01 AM PST by Democrats hate too much
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To: RideForever

Problem is...the Bar was compromised long before this current judge has been


4 posted on 12/25/2020 9:47:27 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: RideForever

Huh? This is like a child spilling a carton of milk and screaming “immunity!”


5 posted on 12/25/2020 9:47:45 AM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: RideForever

Gotta give credit to the globalists. They planned this operation very well and had their bases covered when executing this fraud to seize power. The fix was in and secure.


6 posted on 12/25/2020 9:48:04 AM PST by allendale
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To: jimfree

Where is the Georgia legislature ?

Constitutionally, they are the arbiters of voting laws....not courts, and not governors and their cabinets.

C’mon Georgia legislature. Exercise your constitutional powers. Grow a spine !


7 posted on 12/25/2020 9:49:26 AM PST by BrexitBen
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To: RideForever

Georgia Republicans would do well to quit whining and get off their collective asses.

Put two men on every drop box 7x24 with cameras.

Be like Democrats and flood the zone with the ground game.

Something Republicans failed MISERABLY at in November.

Historic failure. Disgraceful failure.

PREVENT the fraud and quite whining about it.


8 posted on 12/25/2020 9:50:04 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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9 posted on 12/25/2020 9:50:57 AM PST by simpson96
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To: RideForever

What a shocker

https://www.fultoncourt.org/judges/viewjudge.php?id=12


10 posted on 12/25/2020 9:51:14 AM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: simpson96

Figgers


11 posted on 12/25/2020 9:55:20 AM PST by apostoli (The only cotton they ever picked was out of an aspirin bottle.)
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To: allendale

Agreed. Regardless of the evidence and facts, the courts are compromised and will do nothing and I suspect the state legislatures will do likewise. The only option remaining to patriots is BLM/Antifa style civil disobedience.


12 posted on 12/25/2020 9:56:54 AM PST by Glide Plane
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To: RideForever

No redress.

Illegitimate election and government.

State institutes rigged system.

Court says can only be changed via said rigged system.


13 posted on 12/25/2020 9:57:18 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: jimfree

When are the local citizens going to take action against Chinese lackeys like this so-called judge?


14 posted on 12/25/2020 9:59:22 AM PST by BigEdLB (All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others-George Orwell)
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To: simpson96

Could that name plate be any bigger, she looks like the typical loud mouthed black arrogant a## we have become accustomed to. One more for the gitmo list


15 posted on 12/25/2020 10:00:42 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: BrexitBen

They don’t have enough votes to go into session on their own without a few Democrat votes they aren’t getting.

We need Kemp to call them into session.


16 posted on 12/25/2020 10:02:37 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: simpson96

What, no BLM face mask?

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17 posted on 12/25/2020 10:03:00 AM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: RideForever

If the fraud stands, there will no longer be a GA Republican legislature. It is just a matter of time.


18 posted on 12/25/2020 10:03:04 AM PST by joshua c (President Elect joshua_c. Hey if Joe can do it.)
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To: RideForever

I remember when President Trump got elected in 2016; there was a “progressive” radio show in town (it went out of business in just a few months.) Some crying liberal called in to whine but the “wise” progressive host explained that “we” (progressives) had Federal judges in place that would delay and block everything President Trump did.


19 posted on 12/25/2020 10:03:06 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: Democrats hate too much

State legislatures won’t choose against the left for fear of physical harm to themselves and their families. Choose against conservatives, and the only thing they have to fear is a bunch of snide comments.


20 posted on 12/25/2020 10:03:16 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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