May 19, 2022 | Election Law
John Oxendine, Georgia Insurance Commissioner from 1995 to 2011, ran for Governor in 2010 and since that time has been battling the state Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission (formerly known as, and referred to herein as, the “Ethics Commission”)...
Mar 30, 2022 | Election Law
Stacey Abrams, the unopposed Democratic candidate for governor in Georgia, has filed a federal lawsuit seeking permission to utilize her leadership committee, a type of political committee available to the Republican and Democratic nominees for governor that may raise...
Mar 16, 2022 | Election Law
Around the country, state legislatures have been crafting new voting maps following release of the 2020 Census data to recalibrate districts with the appropriate number or proportion of residents for each district. Many newly created maps were swiftly challenged by...
Mar 16, 2022 | Election Law
In March, the Georgia General Assembly passed and Governor Kemp signed into law Senate Bill (SB) 120, titled the “Ethics in Government Act of 2021.” This bill ushered in a number of meaningful changes and additions to the campaign finance and ethics laws already in...
Feb 3, 2022 | Election Law
Last May, Governor Brian Kemp signed into law Senate Bill 221 (SB221), which created a new type of political committee called “leadership committees” that can accept unlimited contributions and make unlimited expenditures during the 2022 election cycle and in future...
Oct 14, 2020 | Election Law
As voters in Georgia go to the polls starting this week for early voting and continue to vote by absentee ballot, voters will be asked to consider three amendments to the Georgia constitution. Georgia’s constitution has been amended 87 times since Georgians adopted...