Democrats in Georgia have lost their effort to block two Republican commissioners from sitting on Fulton County’s Board of Elections because of their political views. What is most striking about this effort was not just the raw partisanship but the utter lack of legal authority of Democrats to refuse to recognize the duly selected GOP members.
For months, the board has blocked two Republican nominees: Jason Frazier and Julie Adams. Fulton County Commissioner Marvin Arrington declared that “I think the Republican party ought to take a look at their people and not nominate people that are on the far right and nominate people that are in the center.”
While self-proclaimed defenders of democracy often seem to have no qualms about curtailing democratic choices from ballot cleansing to jurisdiction flight, this is particularly raw and outrageous. There is no law supporting this action and the state law is clear on the need to seat the GOP commissioners.
Under the state law, two members are appointed by the Democratic party, two are appointed by the Republican party, and a chairperson is selected by the Fulton Commissioners.
On Monday, Fulton County Superior Court Senior Judge David Emerson crushed the claims by the majority that they possessed a veto over GOP commissioners despite the law saying that the commissioners “shall” be seated. It is difficult to see how any competent lawyer would support this legal claim.
Emerson stated the obvious that the Fulton County Commission did “not have the discretion to disapprove an otherwise qualified nominee.” The court points out that higher courts have repeatedly rejected the argument of the Board that “shall” does not mean “shall.” Instead, they claimed that it is merely “directive” and allows them to choose who the other party will sit on the board.
The frivolous character of the Board position is captured in this line: “The court also notes that the appointment statute contains no provision to support the respondents’ position that it should have the power to veto any given nominee and force the county chairperson to submit other nominees.”
The two challenged commissioners have been denounced as far-right or “election deniers” by Democrats. In other words, the commissioners are claiming that they can bar members based on their political views to force the GOP to select commissioners that they consider acceptable. Commissioner Mo Ivory insisted in the board’s meeting that “It’s not possible to work with folks trying to sow discord and chaos”
Judge Emerson had enough, writing that “the lack of these appointments harms the election process and deprives the nominating party of representation on the BOE.”
Here is the order: Fulton County Board of Elections Order
I wish I knew how to get through to Democrats, to make them see how their party abuses power, has rising antisemitism to the point it’s sounding like the Nazi Party, opposes the rule of law and various Constitutional rights, is racist towards black and Latino conservatives, regularly encourages its followers to riot while claiming that Jan 6 was an existential threat, supports the law breakers over the law abiding, and that its policies usually harm those it purports to help. The Democrat Party Platform is their Little Red Book.
Well-meaning people are so misguided that it’s like the Red Guards savaging and breaking anything they consider “old”, traditional, or wealthy, from destroying written family lineage, to beating the rich.
Wow. My jaw is on the floor. The party of democracy everyone. Smh bunch of grifters
TDS is real. It is a psychotic diagnosis that is best described as, “a departure from reality”.
Democrats think they should always have 100% control of everything and will do anything to gain and keep power. That is not called democracy, that is dictatorship. Even Bernie Sanders admitted Democrats are the biggest threat to democracy.
Maybe the D commissioners are afraid of what the new r commissioners might have access to in terms of past elections.
As for illegal immigrants it’s not about the vote. It’s about the 2030 census. The Constitution requires a census if “all persons”. It does not care if these persons are legal, illegal, citizens or not citizens, voters or not voters, just that they are persons
The number of people determine how House of Representatives and therefore electoral votes are apportioned..
Stick a couple million illegals in California, a couple more in Illinois, a couple more in New York a couple more in Oregon and maybe Washington State to be counted in the census. Their increased population would result in them receiving more congressional seats, taken of course from Red States. This would give them permanent control of the House of Representatives as well as the Electoral College forever. That’s the Democrats long game and that is why they are fighting so ferociously to feed and shelter these people until at least 2030.
We better start looking in a way to make sure that they cannot be counted in the census, and we better ought to start looking at that soon OR we need to be deporting these people by truck load and trailer load as soon as possible so they’re not around in 2030.
Am I wrong or am I paranoid?
You are absolutely correct
You are quite right. I’ve been saying the same thing for almost 2 years now. It is only explanation for the Biden open border policy despite the near term political damage to the Dem party it caused. The administration should focus deportation efforts on the blue states where most of the of illegals wound up to counter the attempt at trying to creat a one party country.
You are not paranoid because it is so obvious that’s what at play here. As to “permanent control of…the Electoral College…” that’s a moot issue because they will eliminate it. The Dem’s permanent control of the House of Representatives will mean it’s no different than the Supreme Soviet, rubber stamping everything from the president and his/her sycophants.
If illegal aliens can kill Americans, then it’s only fair that Americans can kill illegal aliens.
You’re correct; furthermore, keep in mind that the “all persons” constitutional provision is offset by laws limiting people from entering or staying illegally in our country. Their “right to be counted” is trumped (sorry for the pun) by those laws. They have no legal right to be here!
Zohran Mamdani is a direct and mortal enemy of the American Thesis of Freedom and Self-Reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Actual Americans and America.
Zohran Mamdani must be apprehended and deported upon his first official denial of the absolute right to “claim and exercise” dominion over private property in the 5th Amendment.
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“The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
– Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
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“[Private property is] that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.”
– James Madison
Happy Hiroshima Day!
The financier Jeffrey Epstein was an important political donor before he pleaded guilty to charges of felony sexual solicitation of underage girls in Florida in 2008.
Epstein has donated $184,276 to politicians on both sides of the aisle, including Chuck Schumer, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Bob Dole since 1990, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Three of the public officials, Eliot Spitzer, Bob Packwood, and Bill Clinton, who have received donations from Epstein have also faced allegations of sexual misconduct.
Epstein pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking on July 8.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-politicians-connections-donations-2019-7
Actions speak louder than words. Democrats claim they support democracy and the law, yet their behavior speaks otherwise. They oppose multiple Constitutional rights, refuse to enforce federal immigration law, unlawfully try to keep political opponents off ballots, and otherwise abuse their positions of authority for political gain.
The Democrats who received money from Epstein should be a matter of public record.
Jeffrey Epstein donated extensively to Democrats throughout the nineties until the investigations into the allegations of sexual coercion of a minor began.
OT jaunt, for s & g (and to stimulate the woke trolls):
Ghislaine Maxwell Reportedly Cleared Trump’s Name In DOJ Interview
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ghislaine-maxwell-reportedly-cleared-trumps-name-doj-interview
“Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly told the Justice Department in a recent interview that she never observed President Donald Trump doing anything around her that “caused concern… Maxwell was recently interviewed by the DOJ about roughly 100 people who were associated with her and her accomplice, deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
“Maxwell said nothing during the interview that would be harmful to President Donald Trump,” ABC reported, citing anonymous sources.”
It was certainly improper for the Arrington to attempt to block these GOP commissioners. However, this article hardly provides a reasonable background of the issue.
Turley writes: “The two challenged commissioners have been denounced as far-right or “election deniers” by Democrats.”
He conveniently leaves out that Julie Adams, one of the GOP commissioners in question, filed a lawsuit seeking a declaration that her duties as an election board member were “discretionary.” She does not believe she must vote to certify results by the deadline set in law. A Georgia appeals court clarified that county election officials must vote to certify results according to deadlines set in law.
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/fulton-county-republican-election-board-nominees-judge-ruling
Contrast this with the way that the GOP is handling the redistricting situation in TX. Anyone, who disapproves of TX Democratic legislators believing their vote duties are “discretionary” should not be supporting folks like Adams.
Roles. Reversed. Such as the sad state of affairs in America.
“Contrast this with the way that the GOP is handling the redistricting situation in TX. Anyone, who disapproves of TX Democratic legislators believing their vote duties are “discretionary” should not be supporting folks like Adams.”
If you reached any harder to make that connection, you’d pull your arm out of the socket. I bet you thought that this was brilliant when you typed it. It’s not.
It really isn’t that much of a stretch. Both are elected politicians that are abdicating their responsibilities for political purposes, no?
Conveniently leaves out . . . blah blah blah. Pathetic troll.
Adams wants an audit of procedure to ensure democratic integrity. Democrats want to deny government operation to ensure Democratic interest.
Do you want integrity and transparency in our elections? Yes or no? I think that most people, even you, would want that. Regardless which political candidate won. That being said, I personally feel Julie Adams should have the right to challenge election results if she think it isn’t transparent and question its integrity. After all, we had seen what numerous courts did back in 2020 and their denying of plaintiffs’ challenges by claiming that they have no legal standing to challenge the results of the election or election rules being change extra-legislatively because either A) the election hadn’t begun yet, B) the election is still on-going, or C) the election is over and the plaintiffs were too late to challenge the election results.
However, after reading this article from Fox 5 Atlanta (Fulton County election board member appeals order saying she must certify results), I agree with the judge, the same Robert McBurney who ruled in favor of the republicans in the Fulton County Election Board case, that Ms. Adams must comply with Georgia’s state law and certified an election results. So if Ms. Adams want the ability to challenge an election result, the onus is on the Georgia Legislature to change the law.
Thank you for not only addressing the topic of Mr Turley’s post, but also adding perspective. (It was worth wading through the irrelevant Epstein spam.)
President Donald Trump’s immigration raids are already having a devastating effect on agriculture, with one farmer in The Dalles, Oregon, seeing huge portions of his cherry crop rot because there’s no one to pick them.
Ian Chandler, who voted for Trump, said he has built up a loyal seasonal workforce for his Wasco County operation about 90 minutes from Portland, with the same people coming year after year and staying in touch with birth announcements and Christmas cards in between. But this year half of them did not arrive, and many of his neighbors were scrambling for pickers too. All told, Chandler said he will lose $250,000-$300,000 of revenue, left to rot on the trees.
Not only have Trump’s mass deportations and raids eliminated a large part of the workforce, but they have also prevented those who remain from being willing to work at all, Chandler said.
They’re having a devastating effect on the Mexican cartels’ ability to kill Americans through fentanyl poisoning, on illegal thugs’ ability to rape and murder American college students and other young women, and on child sex traffickers. If the best you can come up with is, “Mama, they be no slaves left to pick our cotton,” then that’s pretty pathetic, the good guys are definitely winning, and it demonstrates Democrats still haven’t gotten over the emancipation of the slaves. Go away, troll.
Fentanyl toxicity is a respiratory suppressant. As we know in Democratic jurisdictions, Some, Select [Black] Lives Matter following principles in progressive sects under the Pro-Choice religion.
WORK AND GO HOME
Democrats oppose TEMPORARY WORK PERMITS with NO “PATH TO CITIZENSHIP” and and NO PATH TO VOTING.
Democrats don’t want workers.
Democrats want parasitic voters.
Democrats want labor arbitrage and democratic jury rigging, too.
Illegal aliens are a subset of American Civil Liberties Unburdened presenta a clear and progressive problem. Abort.
That said, emigration reform to mitigate progress and collateral damage at both ends of the bridge and throughout.
Contact the unemployment office. Seasonal work $20 per 5 lbs. Crop loss is charged to taxpayers. I’ll go take pics
Ano
with one farmer in The Dalles, Oregon
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Wow just (one) farmer in dem run Oregon……. Yeah right.
Noticed you failed to post what farmer made this comment.
PS Oregon lets illegals in and does what ever it can to stop ICE.
Try again with another lie.
Anonymous – before Democrats threw the border open, farmers used H2A temporary visas for agricultural workers. They could then sponsor ag workers to get permanent resident visas via an EB-3.
The only reason why so many agricultural workers today are illegal, is because the border was opened a bit at a time by Democrats, until the absolute deluge of 10 million under Biden’s tenure.
As the border became less secure, entire industries shifted to cheap illegal labor. Citizens and legal residents are expensive to employ. They are entitled to minimum wage, work comp, and all the benefits voters demand. Illegals often work for cash under the table, for which they pay no taxes, and they enjoy no benefits like work comp, unemployment, and so on…or at least they didn’t, until Biden gave them Taxpayer Identification Numbers.
Illegal aliens are a 2nd class of worker. Employers don’t follow the law, and utilize them to undercut competitors. Many rungs on the ladder of success are closed to them.
When I was a teenager, landscaping companies were all owned by citizens or legal residents, or sometimes high school students raising money. Farms hired temporary migrant workers, local youth, and often their own children and relatives.
Today, virtually all of them in CA run illegal immigrant crews. It’s how they undercut the legitimate businesses who hired legal residents and citizens, paid them a decent wage, and carried all the required benefits.
After all these years of porous, and then wide open borders, of course returning to the days when a second class of worker, the illegal alien, is not available will be difficult. Farmers will once again rely on the ag visas. It will be a process.
Democrats have used the same arguments in favor of illegal immigrants that they used in support of slavery…essentially, “Who would pick the cotton?” The country survived ending the Peculiar Institution. No one today thinks agriculture will dissolve without slaves. If we stay the course, keep voting in Republicans for a few more terms, so illegal immigration is virtually impossible and all immigration goes through legal channels, then soon, no one will think agriculture cannot survive without illegal immigrants.
The Democrat Party does not consider the potential of illegal immigrants. They view them as cheap farm workers, janitors, and other unskilled labor, who will remain unskilled. An underclass to be exploited.
Fulton County Commissioner Marvin Arrington declared that “I think the Republican party ought to take a look at their people and not nominate people that are on the far right and nominate people that are in the center.”
– Professor Turley
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Clearly Brotha Marvin Arrington is a far-left communist who is distinctly not “in the center.”
Politicians such as Comrade Arrington, an evident beneficiary of redistribution, social engineering, welfare, and affirmative action, who claim to be “in the center,” are actually and truly in the communist party.
Sorry libs.
This is not looking good for O-dumber
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I wish it was higher.
“… law saying that the commissioners “shall” be seated. …”
Semantics:
law saying that the commissioners “wherefore” be seated.
law saying that the commissioners “accordingly be seated.
law saying that the commissioners “thereupon be seated.
law saying that the commissioners “whereas be seated.
merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wherefore
merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accordingly
merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thereupon
merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whereas
A little Legislative Housekeeping will do to correct this.
But it won’t fix what’s wrong with Fulton County Georgia.
Turls is just biding time and talking trash until Trump sends Bondi and Hegseth to seize election results.
Hmmm…, two other Fox talking heads R’s picked ahead of Turley. Now watch…, some honors student will try to maintain Turley is actually a Democrat.
Hey GIGI how’s the ramen today? Did you earn your ration yet? Don’t you get tired of hating more successful people?
“more successful people”
What am I saying, compared to loser GIGI here, literally everyone is more successful. It’s harder to be more of a loser than a person who trolls the blog of a law professor for ramen, but that’s our GIGI.
Amen.
maybe gigs thinks that ramen is a step above the “chum” and “slop” that she keeps accusing conservatives of swallowing.
DOJ civil rights chief says Texas redistricting drama prompted by legal warning, not gerrymandering
“We took a look at Texas, and we found that four of their districts in Texas are comprised of these so-called coalition districts,” Dhillon said Tuesday on the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show. “In other words, to get to a special minority district, you have to add together multiple minorities or count on a certain percentage of a crossover white vote. And this is too complex, too weird and too inconsistent with equal protection.
“So we wrote to Texas, telling them that even though that law had been struck down a couple of years ago, their districts were now not in compliance with the Federal Voting Rights laws, and so they needed to take action to fix them,” she added. “That is what triggered the Texas Legislature and the Texas governor to call the legislature into session to put new maps together.”
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/harmeet-dhillon-says-texas-redistricting-fight-began-after-prompting
Waste of time trying to expose a low IQ loser like GIGI to actual facts. How’s that going to get her closer to earning that ration of ramen for today?
@Anonymous
It is a waste of time in terms of hoping for a meaningful change of viewpoint, but it is necessary nonetheless. The trolls would pollute this space completely if no one called them out. I’m afraid the days of ignoring them are over, refuting them is actually important. A whole lot of people read this site that do not comment, and that can’t be the only thing they see.
James,
Just pointing out the facts the annony moron cannot refute. Also highlights how wrong they are on ever so many points.
Upstate – thank you for that link. I watch the interview with Dhillon. It was very informative.
“The trolls would pollute this space completely if no one called them out”
Or, possibly, if no one gratified them by responding to their drivel, they would stop posting entirely and go elsewhere. Of course that won’t happen, since too many here are addicted to the rush derived from slamming their stupidity. Many of those seem to be the very same people asking the trolls is whether they think that anyone is reading their posts. Unfortunately, the answer to “whether” and furthermore to the “who” is pathetically obvious…
You mean the DOJ that is willing to lie for Trump? That excuse was not the reason Texas “decided” to gerrymander. Trump called Abbott to add more seats. Abbott was not even considering a gerrymandering mid-decade until papa Trump called and told Abbott to create new districts so the chances of winning the mid-terms are guaranteed.
Did that make sense to you GIGI? Because it doesn’t to anyone with an IQ over 50. At least you earned your nickel.
Dear Mama Anony: Please READ Upstate Farmer’s LINK to the real events leading to Texas’ action: (hint: it wasn’t caused by Papa Trump.)
Then maybe consider rewording your comment?
“Then maybe consider rewording your comment?”
Gigi, like George, can never admit when they are wrong. Which, in all fairness, is constantly, since they are both continual liars.
Lin. Upstatefarmer’s claim is a poor attempt at deflection. Texas was never going to consider changing district maps until Trump called Abbott. Abbott was reluctant to even consider it. After that call he changed his mind. This was reported way before any mention of the DOJ. Since his claim is coming from Just the News it is highly suspect. The news site is already well known to be biased towards Trump.
The Texas Tribune reported on this long before any mention of the DOJ concerns. The DOJ cannot be trusted to have honest intentions with the information they provided.
“ WASHINGTON — Before he called lawmakers back to Austin to redraw Texas’ congressional maps, Gov. Greg Abbott was initially resistant to the plan pushed by President Donald Trump’s political team to pick up new GOP seats through a rare mid-decade redistricting, according to two people who have spoken to Abbott and the White House about the behind-the-scenes discussions.
The majority of Texas’ GOP congressional delegation was also wary of the idea, with many members concerned that Republican map-drawers could miscalculate and spread their voters too thin — thus putting their jobs in jeopardy — while trying to flip Democratic seats, six people involved in internal delegation discussions told The Texas Tribune.
Abbott told House Republicans from Texas that he was reluctant to take up the issue in Austin, where state lawmakers approve the new lines, if it would pit him against the delegation. In discussions with Abbott’s office, White House staffers attempted to assuage his worries but were unsuccessful, according to two people with direct knowledge of the developments.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/22/texas-redistricting-abbott-republicans-resistant-trump/
The Just the News piece based of a TV show. Doesn’t pass the smell test. It is obvioius the DOJ was dispatched to help Abbott dispel the notion that Trump was pressuring him to get more Republican seats.
” It is obvioius [sic] the DOJ was dispatched to help Abbott dispel the notion that Trump was pressuring him to get more Republican seats.”
So obvious that you can’t back up your crap assertion. Should be easy, if it’s “obvious”.
And the Tribune is a joke, if you lived in Texas you’d know that.
AAG Dhillon says she wrote to Texas to inform them that two of their districts violate the Voting Rights Act. Are you saying she didn’t write the letter, or that her letter was wrong?
(Surely you’re not saying Texas has a legal right to have illegal districts, which would be incoherent.)
It is ironic that Democrat politicians left the state of TX to prevent a quorum on redistricting, by fleeing to IL, a state that Democrats have gerrymandered into a pile of spaghetti.
Surprising the DOJ didn’t also advise that districts cannot be drawn using race, creed or color. Districts are drawn by population.
Law struck down two years ago. Who was President two years ago? No, seriously. Does anyone know who was running the White House two years ago?
President Autopen!
I love Harmeet Dhillon like Giorgia Meloni. I’d like to see her mudwrestle Vanita Gupta.
Your comedy really needs work. A serious site on law is not the place to practice comes.
Izzat you, Mewwick? You siwwy wabbit!
Ano
Grow up. It’s no wonder the dems are in such a mess.
That’s is ridiculous and a radical thing to say
Way past time to rid ourselves of these corrupt clown morons from public office.
These dems have forgotten the Alamo. They should not be allowed back in.