Editor’s Note: Geoff Duncan, a Republican, is the 12th lieutenant governor of Georgia serving alongside Gov. Brian Kemp. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion on CNN. CNN — The political stars appeared to be aligning for the Republican Party ahead of the November midterm […]
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Judge: Georgia lactation consultant law is unconstitutional
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia law that requires people who provide lactation care and services to be licensed by the state and only allows people who have obtained a specific certification to obtain a license violates the state Constitution, a judge has ruled. A provision in the 2016 law requires […]
Georgia primary poses major test for Trump’s drive to remake the GOP
WASHINGTON — If it’s Thursday … A Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital kills at least three Ukrainians. … Vice President Harris faces a diplomatic test in Poland. … President Biden meets at the White House with Colombia’s president, and then addresses the DNC. … The House passes government spending […]
Judge: Georgia Lactation Consultant Law Is Unconstitutional | Georgia News
By KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia law that requires people who provide lactation care and services to be licensed by the state and only allows people who have obtained a specific certification to obtain a license violates the state Constitution, a judge has ruled. A provision […]
Lactation licensing in Georgia, a solution in search of a problem
Despite such medical guidelines, rates for exclusive breastfeeding remain low. In 2011, 14.5% of mothers in Georgia exclusively breastfed their newborns for six months. By 2018, that had increased to 24.3%. Two years later, when her daughter was born, Davis connected with the women at Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere (ROSE), […]
Texas Man Charged With Threatening to Kill Georgia Election Officials
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Friday charged a Texas man with publicly calling for the assassination of Georgia’s election officials on the day before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The case is the first brought by the department’s Election Threats Task Force, an agency created last summer […]
Georgia takes center stage as Biden’s visit kicks off year of political battles
President Joe Biden traveled there Tuesday to kick off a push for voting rights legislation. With Republican primary wars brewing, Democratic discontent over Congress failing to stymie the state’s restrictive new voting law growing and two of the nation’s marquee gubernatorial and Senate races set for this fall, Biden used […]
In Georgia, Stacey Abrams relies on new voters to buck history
WASHINGTON — As Stacey Abrams builds her second campaign for governor in four years, she is looking at a Georgia electorate that is far larger, younger and less white than the one that handed her a narrow defeat last time around, according to an analysis her aides provided exclusively to […]
Heavyweight primary fight increases degree of difficulty for Georgia Republicans
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump contributed to Republicans losing two Senate runoffs in Georgia in 2020 — after he picked fights with GOP elected officials, including Gov. Brian Kemp, who confirmed Trump’s defeat in the state. Is the former president going to hurt Georgia Republicans again in 2022? That’s the question […]
Trump gets wish in Georgia, sparks ‘a political civil war’
ATLANTA (AP) — Less than a year after losing the presidency, Donald Trump has set out to reshape the GOP in his image across the nation’s top political battlegrounds, sparking bitter primary battles that will force candidates and voters to decide how much to embrace Trump and his grievances. But […]