MAGA ... revive Jim Crow

The election of Warnock and Ossof has made the old white men desperate.

The same sentiment as an old Richard Prior joke about abusing an ex-wife and her trying to get out of the house:  "You can leave.  All you have to do is find some other way out of here besides that door."

Georgia state troopers arrested state Rep. Park Cannon on Thursday as she knocked on Gov. Brian Kemp’s door, interrupting his livestreamed announcement that he had signed an elections bill into law.

The officers forcibly removed Cannon, a Democrat from Atlanta, dragging her through the Capitol and pushing her into a police car. She was charged with obstruction of law enforcement and disrupting General Assembly sessions, according to the Georgia State Patrol and released on bond late Thursday.

  Atlanta Journal Constitution

Jesus Christ. Adding to the lawsuits Georgia Republicans are going to find themselves in after all this.

Cannon was with several other protesters when she knocked on Kemp’s office door, saying the public should be allowed to witness the announcement of the bill signing.

Outrageous.  Is there actually a law in Georgia against knocking on the governor's door during a bill signing?  I hope there's not a fire in the building when he's signing bills some day.  I think somebody's about to go to court.

Georgia state Representative Park Cannon spoke out against her arrest after she was released from police custody early Friday morning.

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‘I am not the first Georgian to be arrested for fighting voter suppression. I’d love to say I’m the last, but we know that isn’t true,’ Rep. Cannon said.

  Yahoo

Safe bet there.

She continued, “We will not live in fear and we will not be controlled. We have a right to our future and a right to our freedom. We will come together and continue fighting white supremacy in all its forms.”

In an additional post, she thanked her pastor Rep. Raphael Warnock for his support.

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According to CNN, Cannon faces two felony charges — felony obstruction and preventing or disrupting general assembly session.

Backed by the GOP’s Washington establishment, Republicans have been pushing extreme anti-voting legislation in almost every state, all under the guise of what they call “election integrity.” But the ugliness of Cannon’s arrest underscored the nefariousness of these bills: The Georgia law “suppresses voters, criminalizes compassion & seizes election authority from local + state officials,” Stacey Abrams tweeted Thursday. “It’s Jim Crow in a suit + tie.” California Rep. Ro Khanna called the laws “anti-American, racist, and a betrayal of our Constitution” and accused Kemp of committing “not simply an unjust act but a deeply unpatriotic one.”

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[Democratic attorney Marc] Elias and the New Georgia Project, Rise, and Black Voters Matter are already challenging the law, which was met with protests outside the Georgia State Capitol. And in Washington, the disenfranchisement bill triggered outrage among Democrats, who have already been rallying to expand voting rights at the federal level. “The goal of voter suppression is to so demoralize the electorate that people don’t even bother to try, but that will not happen,” Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, Cannon’s pastor, said in remarks after her arrest Thursday evening. Added Warnock, whose January run-off victory with Jon Ossoff gave Democrats control of Capitol Hill: “We are going to take this fight to give the people their voices back...from the red clay hills of Georgia all the way back, all the way to the United States Senate.”

Elias and the New Georgia Project, Rise, and Black Voters Matter are already challenging the law, which was met with protests outside the Georgia State Capitol. And in Washington, the disenfranchisement bill triggered outrage among Democrats, who have already been rallying to expand voting rights at the federal level. “The goal of voter suppression is to so demoralize the electorate that people don’t even bother to try, but that will not happen,” Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, Cannon’s pastor, said in remarks after her arrest Thursday evening. Added Warnock, whose January run-off victory with Jon Ossoff gave Democrats control of Capitol Hill: “We are going to take this fight to give the people their voices back...from the red clay hills of Georgia all the way back, all the way to the United States Senate.”

  Vanity Fair

Can I get an "Amen"?

UPDATE:

Gabriel Sterling is the elections official who appeared prominently in the Georgia vote count bruhaha.

The law also strips Georgia’s secretary of state of his role as chief elections officer.

“I wouldn’t have written the bill this way,” said Sterling, the chief operating officer for the Secretary of State’s Office. “I definitely wouldn’t have written a bill that took my boss, Secretary Brad Raffensperger, who did a great job ... out of the role as chief elections officer of the state elections board.”

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Raffensperger — and Sterling — staunchly defended the integrity of the state’s presidential election. Raffensperger’s office also released a tape of a shocking phone call to him from Trump calling on Raffensperger to “find” just enough votes to give him a victory over Biden after the election had been called. That conversation is now the subject of an investigation into possible illegal election tampering.

Sterling also accused Trump and his team of deliberately misleading the American public about the vote when he knew there was no fraud. Sterling has called the election the most secure and transparent election in Georgia history.

Nevertheless, Sterling supports the new voting law, insisting it’s not going to “suppress” voting rights. He said it will provide more assurance to voters that elections will be secure — even though any sense of insecurity was likely created by Trump’s “Big Lie” that the vote wasn’t legitimate.

“I get it, it doesn’t look great,” Sterling admitted.

  HuffPo

Understating the situation by an amazing distance.

UPDATE 4/7:

I should hope not!

False arrest charges?