The AJC says that this makes Georgia the first state in the country to train police in protections against election threats as part of the basic statewide training.
Police response to alleged incidents of interference has to be reeeeeeeeeeeeally carefully calibrated, and grounded in the affected community, to be effective. (To wit: some pushback on recent guidance in Indiana.)
But if done right, training can help de-escalate situations with the potential to get a lot worse.
The ballot initiative – in the wake of controversy over the state Supreme Court ruling on abortion, affecting two Justices currently on the ballot in November — would apparently end terms for state justices and judges entirely.
Welp.
These flights were revealed by the Senate Judiciary Committee based on disclosure by Crow, not Justice Thomas.
Justice Thomas has maintained (including in response to the latest) that he was told that these flights fall under an exception in the disclosure laws for transportation related to personal hospitality. And while that may well be true, that advice would not have followed the text of the relevant statute, which exempts “food, lodging, or entertainment received as personal hospitality.”
Consider, for example, how the author of today’s SCOTUS majority opinion in the Garland v. Cargill bumpstock case might address the argument that “food, lodging, or entertainment” includes “transportation.”
Sigh. The new plan is an old plan: compare DMV information to the rolls, but without any apparent plan to ensure the rigor of the matching protocol or to assess whether people who were noncitizens when they got their license have since become naturalized.
If implemented without the right safeguards, bet on the effort capturing eligible citizens.
Moving municipal elections to even-numbered years matters.