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Georgia
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 64 stories to Georgia since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Georgia.
26days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Georgia
10 storiesJustice Department moves to end more than 50 school desegregation cases from the 1960s and 1970s, calling them "onerous and outdated."
Over 75% of division staff gone
Homeland Security memo lists counties with non-English ballots, including one the Voting Rights Act requires to translate, under "requirements for prosecution of voter related charges."
Audit find 9 noncitizen voters statewide
Cobb County, Georgia, superintendent pulls Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's 56-year-old novel "The Bluest Eye" from school libraries after reading only excerpts, with no review committee.
37th removal; claims it's"not a book ban"
Fulton County asks federal court to return seized Georgia 2020 ballots as Trump repeats call to "take over" elections for third consecutive day.
No Fulton Co issues in past 17 elections
Trump calls on Republicans to "nationalize" voting and take control of elections from states in at least 15 places he calls "crooked."
Constitution gives states authority over election administration
FBI seizes 2020 election ballots from Fulton County warehouse after judge previously denied White House lawsuit seeking same records.
700 boxes of ballots loaded onto trucks
Georgia charges a woman with felony murder after police say she took pills to induce an abortion, in one of the first such cases since the state's heartbeat law took effect.
Hospital security called police
The TSA plans to fly thousands of supervisors to Nevada or Georgia for overnight stays to attend a four-hour training, despite the administration's efficiency push.
Insiders suspect justifying unused facility, funds
ICE facility in Louisiana reports its second detainee death in two months, days after an inspection found filthy conditions and excessive force.
19th death in ICE custody since January
Justice Department moves to remove Judge Eleanor Ross from its case to force Georgia to hand over its private voter list, citing her affair and a Fani Willis campaign event.
DA prosecuted Trump for 2020
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesJudge quashes DOJ subpoena for personal data on thousands of 2020 Fulton County election workers, calling it an arbitrary fishing expedition of staggering breadth.
Statute of limitations lapsed in 2023
Georgia Republican Party files ethics complaint against anonymous group spending $5 million on attack ads targeting Trump-endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones without disclosing donors.
Ads running since Thanksgiving
Democrat Eric Gisler flips Georgia state House seat by 200 votes, one year after losing same district 61-39, as GOP drops below 100 seats for first time since 2005.
Republican ran "tired MAGA talking points"
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