The House Judiciary Committee has formed a working group to study issues surrounding police actions and behavior public safety concerns related to the recent shootings by police in Minnesota and Louisiana, along with the deaths of five police officers in Dallas. 9th District Congressman Doug Collins of Gainesville was named to the group by Judiciary
The Fannin County District Attorney has dropped the felony charges against Mark Thomason, publisher of the Fannin Focus, and attorney Russell Stookey. The AJC’s Rhonda Cook is reporting: Appalachian Judicial Circuit District Attorney Alison Sosebee dropped today the three felony charges brought against the publisher of a local weekly newspaper and his attorney that were
Attorney General Sam Olens sends word that Georgians who bought diesel powered Volkswagens will be receiving cash and either repairs of their cars or buybacks, while the state itself will receive about $77 Million. In a settlement announced this morning, each person who bought a car from that didn’t meet emissions standards will receive at
Approaching the end of its 2016 term, the Supreme Court today effectively upheld a lower court’s decision that President Obama violated the separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches of the federal government by issuing executive actions that would have allowed around four million illegal immigrants to remain in America for a period
Yesterday 10 Floyd County residents were arrested and charged under the Georgia RICO Act with the theft of more than $4 million from the Floyd County School System. Those arrested included school employees, their relatives and school suppliers. As reported by Blake Doss of the Rome News-Tribune: Ten people have been arrested and Floyd County
What do these things have in common? The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals The EPA’s Waters of the United States The Guidance Letter from the Department of Justice and the Department of Education Each of them is a regulation issued by one of the branches of the federal government
The State of Georgia has joined a lawsuit initiated by the state of Texas asking for relief from the threats to withhold federal funds if schools do not comply with policies outlined in a Dear Colleague letter released earlier this month that directs schools to allow transgender students to use restrooms, locker rooms, and other
On Sapelo Island, descendants of slaves will soon learn if their lawsuit alleging they are effectively being forced to leave their longtime home will be able to move forward. From the Athens Banner Herald: Residents and landowners from the tiny Hogg Hummock community on remote Sapelo Island filed a suit against the state and McIntosh
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal has weighed in on the rapidly growing controversy over which bathrooms transgender people should use at schools. Following the issuing of guidance by the federal Department of Education recommending that students should use the bathroom they feel most comfortable with, federal and state legislators quickly weighed in. This afternoon, Governor Deal
From a press release from Governor Nathan Deal’s office: Gov. Nathan Deal today announced the appointments of Dustin W. Hightower to a Superior Court judgeship within the Coweta Judicial Circuit and Bradford L. Rigby as district attorney of the Cordele Judicial Circuit. The appointments will take effect upon swearing in. The vacancy within the Coweta
