{"id":29050,"date":"2021-03-29T16:14:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=29050"},"modified":"2021-03-29T16:14:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:14:50","slug":"stacey-abrams-founded-group-sues-georgia-over-voter-suppression-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=29050","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Stacey Abrams-Founded Group Sues Georgia Over \u2018Voter Suppression Bill\u2019&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nicholasreimann\/2021\/03\/26\/stacey-abrams-founded-group-sues-georgia-over-voter-suppression-bill\/?sh=74aede793d0a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Forbes<\/a>: &#8220;The New Georgia Project\u2014which was founded by activist and 2018 gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams\u2014along with the Black Voters Matter Fund and Rise, Inc. filed a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2021\/03\/2021.03.25-Complaint-As-Filed-Misc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0against state election officials Thursday evening in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The suit seeks injunctive action to block new election restrictions outlined in Senate Bill 202\u2014the \u201cVoter Suppression Bill,\u201d as plaintiffs label it\u2014which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nicholasreimann\/2021\/03\/25\/sweeping-georgia-voting-restrictions-signed-into-law\/?sh=16e9ffa7cf6d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was signed into law<\/a>\u00a0by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp Thursday after quickly passing the state House and Senate in votes along party lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;The lawsuit alleges the bill violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by making it harder for Black Georgians to access ballots, while also claiming it violates the first and fourteenth amendments of the U.S. Constitution by creating an undue burden on the right to vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes: &#8220;The New Georgia Project\u2014which was founded by activist and 2018 gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams\u2014along with the Black Voters Matter Fund and Rise, Inc. filed a\u00a0lawsuit\u00a0against state election officials Thursday evening in U.S. District Court in Atlanta. The suit seeks injunctive action to block new election restrictions outlined in Senate Bill 202\u2014the \u201cVoter Suppression Bill,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29063,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29050\/revisions\/29063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}