Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr took aim at the Department of Justice's recently announced lawsuit against the state's election law, calling the move "Constitutionally wrong" and politically motivated.
In a Monday interview on Fox News, Carr objected to Friday's decision by the DOJ to file a lawsuit against Georgia over the state's recently passed Election Integrity Act, arguing that, "This blatantly political action taken by the United States Department of Justice is factually, legally and constitutionally wrong," while alleging that the Justice Department was being "Weaponized."
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the lawsuit at a press conference on Friday, alleging the Georgia elections law is a violation of the federal Voting Rights Act's protections for minority voters.
The legal action takes aim at SB 202, or the Election Integrity Act of 2021, which cleared both state legislative chambers with no Democratic backing, and was signed into law by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on March 25-drawing praise from backers of elections integrity measures and protests from those who claim the bill amounts to "Voter suppression."
On Friday, in a statement to The Epoch Times, Kemp criticized the DOJ's lawsuit as being a product "Of the lies and misinformation the Biden administration has pushed against Georgia's Election Integrity Act from the start."
The bill also shortens the election cycle for runoffs from nine weeks to four and requires a minimum of one week of early voting before Election Day.
"The provisions we are challenging reduce access to absentee voting at each step of the process pushing more Black voters to in person voting, where they will be more likely than white voters to confront long lines," Clarke said Friday in criticizing the Georgia law.
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Georgia AG Denounces DOJ Lawsuit Against Georgia Election Law as ‘Blatantly Political'
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