GA tries to delay trial on abortion ban, Judge tells them to Fuck off (slightly paraphrased)

[Nevilledog]

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Riley Bunch
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A judge has denied the state's motion to delay arguments in the constitutional challenge of Georgia's strict abortion law until after the election. The trial will be held on Oct. 24-25, per court documents. Shaking up the last weeks before voters cast ballots. Story TK! #gapol

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Here's the full story: #gapol

gpb.org
Judge: Abortion law challenge will be heard before Election Day
A court will hear oral arguments in the new state constitutional challenge of Georgia’s strict abortion law later this month. On Wednesday, a Fulton County judge shot down a motion to delay the case...
10:16 AM · Oct 6, 2022

https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/10/06/judge-georgia-abortion-law-challenge-will-be-heard-election-day

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Lawyers representing the state filed a motion in September to “cancel” or “postpone” the trial, citing that holding proceedings before Election Day is “highly problematic” for state’s counsel that will likely be involved in election-related lawsuits.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney denied the state’s request and said that the state’s logic was flimsy.

“The State has offered four reasons for this ‘cancellation,’” McBurney wrote. “Which can be summarized as ‘We are really busy with other things,’ ‘There are no facts in dispute,’ ‘We don’t know what facts are in dispute,’ and ‘You can’t do what you are trying to do.’”

“The Court’s response, detailed below, can be summarized as ‘Who isn’t?,’ ‘There are,’ ‘You do,’ and ‘I can,’” he wrote.

The two-day trial is set to move forward on Oct. 24 and 25 — just two weeks before Georgians cast ballots in high-stakes contests like the governor’s and U.S. Senate races.

“Delay here has a fundamentally more significant impact on the lives of many Georgians than in most other cases,” McBurney wrote.

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Full ruling (don't miss the footnotes LOL)

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23126497/georgia-abortion-lawsuit-order-100522.pdf

[wryter2000]

1. LOL

2 In making this finding, the Court rejects the State’s claim that it must resort to “divination” to determine
how and for what to prepare in this case. The State needs neither a Ouija board nor a Magic 8 Ball to be
ready in this matter.

[magicarpet]

2. Your Honor,.. this is just not at all fair,...

Only 20% of the voting base believes in abortion. We want to sneak this through - but keep it low key.

We want to cater to our base and keep them happy. But we don't want to piss off the rest (80%) of the voting population.

.

[gratuitous]

3. We don't want to have to answer to the voters before the election

Cancha just hold off for a few weeks? This issue is really a loser for the Republicans, and we need as much time as possible to blunt the righteous anger of the electorate at being made second class citizens.

This is what you've been working for for nearly 50 years, folks. Own it.

[crickets]

4. GOOD. K&R

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. I'm kinda partial to the court terminating both real and imaginary stays.

It's not often that a judge acknowledges the moths fluttering around in the State's collective mind.

[Nevilledog]

6. Yeah, I'm partial to that one too.

[Hekate]

7. "The Court's response...can be summarized as 'Who isn't?,' 'There are,' 'You do,' and 'I can' " ...