With about a month left until the general election in 2024, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the ACLU of Georgia, the American Civil Liberties Union and Akerman LLP intervened in a lawsuit filed against election officials in Oconee County, Georgia. In that case, the plaintiff asked the court to...
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In 2021, the state of Georgia enacted SB 202, a voter suppression law with provisions allowing state elections officials to usurp the powers of local officials, including the authority to purge individual voters from the list of active, registered voters.
In this 2024 case, two residents...
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July 18, 2024
NEW ORLEANS—July 18, 2024— Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit declined to restore voting rights to tens of thousands of Mississippians in its ruling in Hopkins v. Watson . The Southern Poverty Law Center and...
