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2021-06-25 Home Front: Politix

'Huge victory': Judge names members of Fulton election board in lawsuit; ballot audit will proceed

[Just the News] An order handed down by a Georgia judge today named several individual members of a county elections board as respondents in an election-related lawsuit, clearing the way for an intensive audit of 2020 absentee ballots in Georgia's largest county.

Superior Court Judge Brian Amero in a Thursday ruling dismissed several claims brought against governmental entities of Fulton County on sovereign immunity grounds, but he allowed the five members of Fulton County's Board of Registration and Elections to be named in the suit.

"Sovereign immunity" is a legal doctrine that holds that governmental parties are protected from many or most forms of lawsuits. In Amero's ruling, he notes that Georgia law stipulates that "no suit alleging violations of due process or equal protection rights under the Georgia Constitution, that seek declaratory or injunctive relief, may be initiated against either the state or county," barring a waiver from the state legislature or the state constitution.

Yet even as he dismissed the government parties in the suit, Amero subsequently moved to add the five members of Fulton's elections board as parties pursuant to a request from the petitioners in the case.

Posted by Clavilet Unort8876 2021-06-25 09:01|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Michael Richard Pence just let the world know he is a corrupt jackass.

Posted by Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 2021-06-25 11:31|| 2021-06-25 11:31|| Front Page Top

#2 So sovereign immunity means the government can do whatever, huh?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-06-25 11:59|| 2021-06-25 11:59|| Front Page Top

#3 ...pretty much. Checks and balances are a long thing of the past.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-25 16:44|| 2021-06-25 16:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Here's the deal. First one to spill their guts on the others gets a deal. The others hang...

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-06-25 17:59|| 2021-06-25 17:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Sovereign Immunity is the biggest bunch of BS you have ever heard of, but unfortunately, it is a long-time concept, not a recent invention. It is a horror that has destroyed more lives than almost any other legal doctrine in existence. It is pathetic that judges allow such a thing to exist, and shocking to me that people don't react to its application with force far more often.

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2021-06-25 20:06|| 2021-06-25 20:06|| Front Page Top

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