Balance of state’s political power on the table when lawmakers gather for special session next week
Every winter, state lawmakers gather in Atlanta and decide how to spend taxpayer dollars and vote on issues affecting Georgians’ daily lives. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder When state lawmakers meet next week to redraw Georgia’s political maps, a national audience will follow the debate over the creation of an additional court-ordered majority Black district in west…
Fulton judge rejects revoking defendant’s bond for social media posts in 2020 election case
Defendant Harrison Floyd, left, a leader in the Black Voices for Trump organization, listens on Nov. 21 as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis addressed the court during a bond revocation hearing related to the Georgia election indictments. (Dennis Byron/Hip Hop Enquirer via AP) The former director of Black Voices for Trump Harrison William Floyd…
Fulton 19 update: Floyd’s bond revocation hearing Tuesday; Trump trial to run beyond ’24 election
Booking photos from the Fulton County conspiracy case charging Donald Trump and allies with trying to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. Top row, from left Jeffrey Clark, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Michael Roman, Ray Smith, David Shafer, Sen. Shawn Still. Center row, from left, Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump, John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro. Bottom…
Biden signs stopgap spending bill, avoiding government shutdown
President Joe Biden in the White House Rose Garden on Oct. 11, 2023. (Official White House photo by Oliver Contreras) WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has signed the stopgap spending bill, giving his administration and Congress about two months to work out agreement on the dozen annual spending bills. Those appropriations measures were supposed to…
Wee hours U.S. Senate drama: GOP colleagues on the floor battle Tuberville blockade
U.S. Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., speaks on the U.S. Senate floor on Thursday, Nov. 16, asking to take up and confirm two military nominees blocked by Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, who is seated at left. Screenshot from C-SPAN 2 WASHINGTON — After a marathon day and late-night vote to avert a Thanksgiving government shutdown,…
Congress sends stopgap spending bill to Biden’s desk, averting shutdown for now
Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, a Washington state Democrat, said just before the stopgap spending bill passed that she’s already turned her attention to “what happens next.” Murray is shown speaking during a hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Nov. 8, 2023. Alex Wong/Getty Images WASHINGTON — U.S.…