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On November 9, 2016 Governor Nathan Deal appointed three new justices to the Georgia Supreme Court, including Boggs. [7] He was seated on January 1, 2017. He won the 2018 and 2024 Georgia judicial elections uncontested. [8] [9] He became chief justice on July 18, 2022. [10]
Gov. Brian Kemp spoke from Apalachee High School during the 9 p.m. news conference. "This hits home for us being from Athens just down the road, Marty and I having a daughter who taught first ...
Four seats on the Supreme Court of Georgia were being up for election to a six-year term on May 21, 2024. Of these four, only the seat held by Andrew Pinson was contested by former Democratic U.S. House member John Barrow. Justices Michael Boggs, John Ellington and Nels Peterson were unopposed for re-election.
Kemp won his first term by a narrow 55,000-vote margin (1.4%) in 2018, which was Georgia's closest gubernatorial election since 1966. In 2022, however, pre-election forecasting showed a solid lead for Kemp throughout and he ultimately won re-election by nearly 300,000 votes (7.5%) - the largest raw vote victory for a Georgia governor since 2006.
Gov. Brian Kemp asked for the legal opinion late last month after Georgia Democrats called on the Republican governor to remove three GOP members of the State Election Board.
A Georgia appeals court on Wednesday agreed to review a lower court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought ...
Though Georgia is currently a purple state at the federal level (having voted very close to the nation as a whole in Donald Trump's 2024 win, with Georgia voting for Trump by 2.3% while having two Democratic Senators), it continues to maintain a slight to moderate red lean at the state level, with Republicans holding all state seats between 5-10% in the 2022 midterms despite the year overall ...
The 26-page decision from Fulton Superior Judge Robert McBurney repealed Georgia’s Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, a 2020 law that restricted access to abortion after six weeks ...