Second lawsuit filed against SB 202, Georgia's new voting law. Georgia NAACP & other orgs...

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Mar 29, 2021
BREAKING: a second lawsuit is filed against SB 202, Georgia's new voting law. Georgia NAACP & other orgs allege purposeful discrimination in addition to harmful effects under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the 1st, 14th and 15th amendments.
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The full complaint is available here

Georgia - Complaint SB 202 3.28.2021.pdf
drive.google.com
6:57 AM · Mar 29, 2021

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13pT4OsEN7eCvb8cn5hGfbPHq36MzQXR6/view

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https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/georgias-sweeping-elections-overhaul-faces-new-legal-challenge/ARLWEI7SENEKNC4VUGWSHGGUIA/

A coalition of advocacy groups on Sunday filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block Republican-backed voting restrictions signed into law last week by Gov. Brian Kemp, the second legal challenge aiming to derail the far-reaching new elections overhaul.

The complaint calls Senate Bill 202 the “culmination of a concerted effort to suppress the participation of Black voters and other voters of color” in response to Democratic victories in November and January. It asks a judge to declare the law unconstitutional and in violation of the Voting Rights Act.

“Unable to stem the tide of these demographic changes or change the voting patterns of voters of color, these officials have resorted to attempting to suppress the vote of Black voters and other voters of color in order to maintain the tenuous hold that the Republican Party has in Georgia,” the lawsuit read. [snip]

It was filed Sunday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta by the Georgia chapter of the NAACP, the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, the League of Women Voters of Georgia, the GALEO Latino Community Development Fund, Common Cause and the Lower Muskogee Creek Tribe. [more]