Georgia

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Georgia Gun Laws Weigh on Atlanta's Bid to Host 2024 Democratic ... (The New York Times)

Boosters of Chicago's bid are raising safety questions about Georgia's lenient concealed-carry laws, jockeying for the upper hand as a decision nears.

Though full adoption of the law is held up in court, its existence is part of an expansive pitch, including a constitutionally enshrined right to unionize and abortion rights protections, that Chicago is more in step with the party’s values. And the organizers said it was [not a coincidence](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/business/tesla-buffalo-union.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-labor-movement&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc). Then this month, the SweetWater Brewing Company pulled its SweetWater 420 Fest out of Centennial Olympic Park — where the Democratic convention potentially would be — and sharply scaled back the event to hold it on the brewery grounds, a private space, citing the safety of festivalgoers. Union leaders, who had been pressing their case against Atlanta privately, are also speaking up louder, saying that for many state delegations and union officials, staying in unionized hotels and attending events at unionized venues matter. Shipman said, pointing to the narrow twin electoral victories of Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in 2020, and Mr. A few months later, the Midtown Music Festival canceled its annual event after organizers said they were at a loss on how to protect their expected 50,000 visitors. It’s obviously the home of the civil rights movement but also more recently the home of, you know, wins by Senators Ossoff and Warnock,” Mr. The city also had strong security relationships with federal, state and local law enforcement authorities, he added. Biden narrowly carried in 2020 may supersede logistical and policy hurdles like gun laws, abortion bans and union hotels, Atlanta boosters said. But recent events have brought a new argument: Georgia’s lenient gun laws could make it extremely difficult to keep firearms away from the delegates. Union officials have for weeks pressed President Biden and the Democratic National Committee to pick the more union-friendly city; Chicago has more than 30 unionized hotels while Atlanta has just two, they say. Georgia Democrats have scoffed at the pitch.

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Trump Legal Team Assails Georgia Inquiry (The New York Times)

The lawyers said public comments by the forewoman of the special grand jury that investigated election interference had “poisoned” the process.

Mr. The Manhattan district attorney is investigating hush money payments made to a porn star, and a special counsel in Washington is looking into the handling of classified documents as well as Mr. The Georgia investigation has emerged as one of the most potent potential legal threats to Mr. Kohrs personally, saying that the lawyers “hold no chagrin to a young person that has no involvement in the criminal legal system that walked into this.” Kohrs’s interviews suggested that the district attorney might be wise to “make no mention of the special grand jury report or its findings” when she seeks indictments before a regular grand jury. Among the Trump lawyers’ criticisms of the investigation was Ms. Findling said that by hinting that the jury had recommended a number of indictments, Ms. The concerns about the case were raised in an interview late Wednesday at the Atlanta offices of Mr. Kohrs, in discussing the case, had in fact divulged a number of matters that they believed constituted “deliberations,” including jurors’ discussions about “who to call, why to call them” and “what battles they wanted to fight,” Jennifer Little, a lawyer for Mr. “They’re not prohibited from talking about that, nor are they prohibited from talking about the fruit of their deliberations, which would be the final report.” Trump said late Wednesday that details divulged this week by the forewoman of a special grand jury investigating election interference by Mr. Jeff DiSantis, a spokesman for the Fulton County district attorney’s office, declined to comment on the Trump lawyers’ criticism of the case.

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Could a Trump grand juror's comments affect possible Georgia ... (Reuters)

Feb 23 (Reuters) - Media interviews given by the foreperson of the Georgia grand jury that investigated former President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn ...

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Trump May Take Legal Action In Georgia Election Case After ... (Forbes)

The ex-president could soon be indicted in the Fulton County investigation for trying to overturn the 2020 election.

Neither the portions of the [grand jury report](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/02/16/georgia-trump-probe-grand-jury-recommends-perjury-indictments---but-hasnt-yet-said-who-could-be-charged/) that have been publicly released or Kohrs’ comments have suggested who specifically could be indicted, though the forewoman told NBC News the jury had recommended more than a dozen people be indicted. Publicly released portions of the grand jury report also reveal the panel believed some of the 75 witnesses interviewed may have committed perjury by lying to the grand jury during their testimony, and have likely been recommended to be indicted as well. Willis has been investigating Trump and his allies’ efforts to overturn the 2020 election since February 2021, particularly Trump’s phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which Trump told him to “find” enough votes to overturn President Joe Biden’s win. The judge overseeing the grand jury’s work, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, told the Journal-Constitution that the scope of what members of the grand jury legally can’t share about their work is pretty narrow. Legal experts have said that while they may disagree with Kohrs speaking to the media, they don’t believe anything she said rose to the level of being illegal. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and having a conflict of interest involving a target in the investigation. [said](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/01/24/will-trump-be-indicted-in-georgia-fulton-county-da-suggests-multiple-people-could-imminently-face-charges-in-2020-election-probe/) in January that decisions on indictments would come “imminently,” so it’s expected that charges will be filed in the investigation soon. [Trump Calls Georgia Criminal Investigation 'Kangaroo Court' After Juror Gives Interview About Forthcoming Indictments](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/02/22/trump-calls-georgia-criminal-investigation-kangaroo-court-after-juror-gives-interview-about-forthcoming-indictments/?sh=7ddc8d32444c) (Forbes) [Georgia Trump Probe: Grand Jury Recommends Perjury Indictments — But Hasn’t Yet Said Who Could Be Charged](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/02/16/georgia-trump-probe-grand-jury-recommends-perjury-indictments---but-hasnt-yet-said-who-could-be-charged/?sh=6f46e56a738d) (Forbes) [Trump Claims ‘Total Exoneration’ In Georgia Election Probe: Here’s Why That’s Not True—And He Could Still Be Indicted Soon](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/02/17/trump-claims-total-exoneration-in-georgia-election-probe-heres-why-thats-not-true-and-he-could-still-be-indicted-soon/?sh=642842af6055) (Forbes) [Trump attorneys: Special grand jury probe ‘a clown show’](https://t.co/ojtwYKVwj2?utm_source=pocket_saves) (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) [Georgia Trump Probe: Grand Jury Reportedly Recommends Multiple Indictments](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/02/21/georgia-trump-probe-grand-jury-reportedly-recommends-multiple-indictments/?sh=17389ec82e0d) (Forbes) [thanked](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/02/17/trump-claims-total-exoneration-in-georgia-election-probe-heres-why-thats-not-true-and-he-could-still-be-indicted-soon/?sh=642842af6055) the jurors for their work and claimed the public portions of its report were “total exoneration”—even though one of the only things the report revealed was that the grand jury unanimously found there was no widespread voter fraud as Trump claimed. “We’re on top of every conceivable legal issue that’s involved in this case … [grand jury report](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/02/16/georgia-trump-probe-grand-jury-recommends-perjury-indictments---but-hasnt-yet-said-who-could-be-charged/) were released to the public, as Willis and McBurney argued the sections detailing specific people who may have committed crimes should remain private for now, given that they haven’t been formally indicted yet. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution](https://t.co/ojtwYKVwj2?utm_source=pocket_saves) and [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/us/trump-legal-team-assails-georgia-inquiry.html) they were considering filing unspecified motions in court in response to grand jury forewoman Emily Kohrs, who gave multiple media [interviews](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/02/21/georgia-trump-probe-grand-jury-reportedly-recommends-multiple-indictments/?sh=17389ec82e0d) this week that elaborated on the grand jury’s work and said the panel had recommended multiple people to be indicted.

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Trump responds to interviews with grand jury foreperson: 'This ... (The Guardian)

Former president, under investigation for his election subversion attempts, criticizes jury foreperson for 'doing a media tour'

“If I’m the prosecutor, I’m not sure that I want this media tour taking place, because I’m confident that Donald Trump’s lawyers are going to use this, just based on what I [am] hearing … I’ve never heard of a grand jury foreperson speaking this way … I’ve never seen anything like it. [widely reported](https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2023/02/23/the-grand-juror-who-might-have-said-too-much-00084121) that lawyers for [possible Republican targets](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/possible-targets-in-fulton-county-investigation-of-trump-allies-may-try-to-quash-charges/) in the investigation are preparing to seek dismissal of the case based on the foreperson’s comments. [to CNN](https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/22/politics/georgia-grand-jury-emily-kohrs-what-matters/index.html), she said it would be a “good assumption” that more than a dozen people would be indicted. [interviews](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/22/trump-election-2020-grand-jury-georgia) given by the foreperson of the Georgia grand jury which investigated his election subversion attempts by ridiculing the woman and claiming to be the victim of his political enemies.

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Trump lawyers criticize Georgia election probe after grand juror ... (PBS NewsHour)

Former President Donald Trump's lawyers in Georgia are criticizing the Fulton County investigation into potential illegal election meddling after the ...

He said he provided them with the “rules of the road” of what they were legally allowed and not allowed to discuss publicly. Willis has said since the beginning of the investigation two years ago that she was interested in a Jan. That’s a problem, Findling said, because they have examined the evidence and remain convinced that “our client did not break any law at all.” Kohrs said prosecutors told the jurors they could read and watch the news but urged them to keep an open mind. The special grand jury was impaneled at the request of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is investigating whether Trump and his Republican allies committed any crimes as they tried to overturn his narrow 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden in Georgia. “The end product is the reliability of anything that has taken place in there is completely tainted and called into question,” Findling said in an interview with the AP on Wednesday evening.

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Trump lawyers call Georgia special grand jury proceedings 'clown ... (The Hill)

Lawyers for former President Trump labeled the Georgia special grand jury probe into the 2020 election “clown-like” after the forewoman of the jury made ...

[Trump wrote](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109909310069862367). “This Georgia case is ridiculous, a strictly political continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt of all time. [interviewed by multiple media outlets](https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3869576-trump-attacks-georgia-grand-jury-forewoman-over-media-tour/) and offered limited insight into the special grand jury’s report, which was partially released last week. “What kind of reliable body is that?” He also criticized Kohrs’s comments that jurors discussed media coverage of the proceedings. “How can anyone looking at what we’ve now seen have faith and trust in the results of this investigation?”

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President Vetoes Law on National Bank of Georgia (Civil Georgia)

President Salome Zurabishvili announced on February 23 that she had vetoed amendments to the Organic Law on the National Bank of Georgia, saying they.

It also noted that in one case, a Vice President performed the duties of the President for 16 months. According to the amendments, the First Vice President will be added to the three existing Vice Presidents of the Bank, who will deputize for President in the event of the latter’s absence. The Parliament adopted the amendments to the Organic Law on the National Bank of Georgia in an accelerated manner on February 9, with 83 votes in favor and 8 against.

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