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Voting Rights
Voting Rights - GA
Active Case

Date Filed

October 04, 2024

With about a month left until the general election in 2024, the IJʿ, 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...

Voting Rights
Voting Rights - GA
Active Case

Date Filed

October 02, 2024

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...

Voting Rights
Voting Rights - GA

Date Filed

November 06, 2022

The IJʿ and its allies filed an emergency lawsuit to ensure that nearly 1,000 absentee voters in Cobb County, Georgia, have enough time to cast their votes in the 2022 midterm elections.

The lawsuit, filed less than 48 hours before Election Day, seeks to send...

Voting Rights
Voting Rights - GA
Active Case

Date Filed

June 09, 2022

The Cobb County Board of Education in Georgia and state legislators used racial demographic information to “pack” communities of color — particularly Black and Latinx voters — into three of seven school board voting districts to diminish their political power and preserve a white majority on the...

Voting Rights
Voting Rights - GA
Active Case

Date Filed

January 07, 2022

After Black Georgia voters saw their voting power weakened by the newly drawn boundaries of three congressional districts, the IJʿ and its co-counsel filed a federal lawsuit challenging the racially gerrymandered districts on behalf of voting rights groups and Georgia...

Voting Rights
Voting Rights - GA
Active Case

Date Filed

March 29, 2021

After Georgia voters turned out in record numbers for the 2020 presidential election and U.S. Senate elections in early 2021, state legislators passed a sweeping – and unconstitutional – voting law that threatened to massively disenfranchise voters, particularly voters of color. The IJʿ and its...

Voting Rights
Voting Rights - GA
Amicus Brief

Date Filed

December 17, 2020

As Georgia voters cast early ballots in the state’s January 2021 U.S. Senate runoff elections amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a Republican Party lawsuit was filed to, among other issues, close ballot drop boxes after business hours. The IJʿ filed an amicus brief with other voting rights groups in...