The Department of Justice is filing a lawsuit challenging new voting restrictions in Georgia, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced. The federal suit was announced about three months after Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia signed the election overhaul bill passed by the state’s GOP-controlled legislature. The law reportedly enacts a slew of restrictive and potentially confusing measures that critics allege will harm turnout, especially in Democrat and minority heavy urban and suburban counties.
The Department of Justice is suing Georgia, alleging a recently passed election law violates the Voting Rights Act’s protections for minority voters, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday.
“Where we see violations of federal law, we will act,” Garland said at a news conference.
Garland said Georgia’s election reform law was enacted “with the purpose of denying or abridging the right of Black Georgians to vote on account of their race or color.”
He called the Justice Department’s new lawsuit “the first of many steps-- excerpt, rest at link above --
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