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Georgia judge says county election officials cannot delay or decline certification of election results
“Election superintendents in Georgia have a mandatory fixed obligation to certify election results,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in an 11-page ruling ...
11Alive5d
Fulton County judge rules county election officials must certify election results
ATLANTA — A Georgia judge has ruled county election officials must certify election results by the deadline set in law and cannot exclude any group of votes from certification even if they ...
Newsweek4d
Judge McBurney Cites Jan. 6 as Reason for Stopping Georgia Hand Count Vote
An Atlanta judge has blocked a new rule that would have required Georgia ballots cast in this election to be counted by hand. "This election season is fraught; memories of January 6 have not faded ...
Savannah Morning News20d
Judge rules Georgia's six week abortion ban unconstitutional
The 26-page decision from Fulton Superior Judge Robert McBurney repealed Georgia’s Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, a 2020 law that restricted access to abortion after six weeks ...
Georgia judge rules certification of election results is 'mandatory'
Judge Robert McBurney, as part of an ongoing election case, found that the law is clear: "the superintendent must certify and ...
USA Today19d
Judge signals he may rule Georgia counties must certify election results on time
Judge Robert C. I. McBurney said Tuesday that he thought it "would be a problematic ruling" if he were to say a board member's "discretion encompasses the ability of a board member to decline to ...
The New York Times4d
Judge Blocks Hand-Counting of Election Ballots in Georgia
Judge Robert C.I. McBurney did not, however, knock down the rule outright; his decision was confined to the current election, halting the rule from taking effect for 2024 while he further weighs ...
National Review20d
Another Wild Abortion Ruling by Georgia Judge Robert McBurney
In a kooky ruling back in November 2022, Georgia superior court judge Robert McBurney invoked and misapplied the “void ab initio doctrine” to bar state officials from enforcing the state’s ...
The Telegraph20d
Judge says Georgia’s abortion law is unconstitutional
In a 26-page ruling, Judge Robert McBurney declared the law an unconstitutional violation of women’s privacy and equal protection rights. “This dispute is fundamentally about the extent of a ...
Mother Jones20d
A Court Just Threw Out Georgia’s Six-Week Abortion Ban
“Women are not some piece of collectively owned community property the disposition of which is decided by majority vote,” McBurney writes. “Forcing a woman to carry an unwanted, not-yet ...
The New York Times20d
Georgia’s 6-Week Abortion Ban Is Struck Down
The ruling, by Judge Robert C.I. McBurney of Fulton County Superior Court, is unlikely to be the final word because of the expectation that the case will ultimately be decided by the Georgia ...
The Independent19d
Georgia judge invokes The Handmaid’s Tale while striking down state’s six-week abortion ban
The 26-page opinion, from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, ordered that abortion access must be regulated as it was before Georgia lawmakers passed the state’s anti-abortion ...