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Georgia Judge Orders Fulton Commissioners to Pay $10,000 Per Day Over Rogue Democrats Refusing to Seat GOP Election Board Nominees

Earlier today, The Gateway Pundit reported on at least three democrats on the Fulton County Board of Commissioners who refused to seat the lawfully nominated Republican Party nominees Jason Frazier and Julie Adams.

Commissioners Ivory and Barrett took to Instagram to express their disgust that “election deniers” would be appointed to the board and vowed to hold out no matter the costs.  Fellow commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr posted on Instagram that he’d be willing to go jail over this.

This morning, Superior Court Judge David Emerson found “beyond a reasonable doubt that the Board of Commissioners has failed to comply with the court’s order” and has held the Board in civil contempt.  Beginning on Friday, August 29th at 12pm, the Board will be fined $10,000 for every day that they fail to appoint the Republican Party’s members to the Board of Elections.

He further noted that the fine “is to be paid daily” but stopped short of holding the respondents in criminal contempt.

Judge Emerson also awarded attorney’s fees “incurred in both the bringing of this case to compel compliance with the relevant local legislation and for the intentional failure to comply with the court’s order enforcing the law.”  Emerson further wrote:

The court does find that the respondent Board of Commissioners has been stubbornly litigious and acted in bad faith in its conduct prior to this litigation by its failure to comply with clear local legislation which forced the plaintiff to file this action.  The court further finds that it has caused the plaintiff unnecessary difficult in the conduct of this litigation by its failure to comply with the court’s order. (emphasis added)

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Fulton County Board of Commissioners Defy Court Order – Refuse to Appoint Republican Election Board Nominees – Contempt Hearing Today

Last week, a judge ordered the Fulton County Board of Commissioners to seat two Republican Party nominees: Jason Frazier and Julie Adams.  The two were nominated in May but have yet to be seated.

Two of the Democrat members, Dana Barrett and Mo Ivory, were able to thwart Commissioner Bridget Thorne’s motion to confirm the two Republican appointees.  Because of the absence of three other members on the seven-member board, the motion was blocked in a 2-2 vote.

On August 4th, Judge David Emerson ordered the two nominees be confirmed as per Georgia law, which states that the the board’s members “shall be appointed” by the “chairperson of the county executive committee of the political party” of whichever party has the “largest number of votes in this state for members of the General Assembly”.

In that order, Judge Emerson stated, “The respondent Board of Commissioners (BOC) contends the “shall” is not mandatory, but rather “directory”, and that the county commissioners can exercise discretion to reject any nominee for any reason.”

The commissioners filed a request to reconsider, which was denied.  So they filed an emergency motion with the Georgia Supreme Court, who moved the docket to the Georgia Court of Appeals.  The appeals court denied the motion as well.

Today, at 9am, a hearing will take place regarding the two members who voted against the appointments, and a third who was not present but is also refusing to appoint the two despite the Court’s orders.

Commissioners Dana Barrett, Mo Ivory, and Marvin Harrington still refuse to vote for the appointments.

Barrett, who has served on the board since November 2022, took to Instagram to post a video calling Frazier and Adams, the Republican nominees, “election deniers” and acknowledging that the Court has ruled against her and her colleagues.  “Our elections are under attack,” she said, before invoking Texas and President Trump’s movement to eliminate universal mail-in balloting and untrustworthy black-box voting machines.

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Court Orders Fani Willis to Provide New Information About Her Trump RICO Case and Collusion with Jack Smith

A Georgia state court ordered embattled Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to provide more information about her RICO case against Trump and collusion with Jack Smith.

The Fulton County Superior Court last year found Fani Willis in default for refusing to hand over documents in an open records lawsuit.

Fani Willis refused to answer a public records lawsuit seeking records of her communications with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the January 6 Committee.

Last year, conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch asked the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia to declare a default judgment against Fani Willis after she refused to respond to its lawsuit related to communications she had with Jack Smith and the sham January 6 Committee.

In 2022, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan launched an investigation into whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis coordinated with federal officials during her years-long probe into Trump and his associates.

Chairman Jordan in his letter to Fani Willis requested all documents and communications between or among the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office and DOJ and its components, including but not limited to the Office of Special Counsel Jack Smith, referring or relating to your office’s investigation of President Donald Trump or any of the other eighteen individuals against whom charges were brought in the indictment.

In referring to Jim Jordan’s letter to Fani Willis, Judicial Watch filed a Georgia Open Records Act request seeking records of her communications with Jack Smith.

According to Judicial Watch: The court ordered Willis “to conduct a diligent search of her records for responsive materials within five business days of the entry of this Order. Within that same five day period, Defendant is ORDERED to provide Plaintiff with copies of all responsive records that are not legally exempted or excepted from disclosure.” [Emphasis in original] Willis’ office responded with zero non-public documents.

On Monday, the court ordered Fani Willis to provide new information about her search for records related to her anti-Trump lawfare and collusion with Jack Smith.

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Fulton County Defies Court Orders Requiring Confirmation Of GOP Election Board Nominees

The Democrat-led Fulton County Board of Commissioners is once again defying a court order in its determination to block two Republicans from taking their seats on the county’s elections board.

The Republican Party of Fulton County nominated Julie Adams and Jason Frazier to serve on the elections board in May. Despite state law requiring that the county commissioners “shall” accept the appointments, they had previously refused to do so, criticizing Adams and Frazier for their election integrity efforts.

Even after the Fulton County Republican Party filed suit in June, and the court found in their favor early in August, the commissioners still refused to comply.

Last Wednesday, the board of commissioners filed a motion asking the court to reconsider. Two days later, Fulton County Superior Court Judge David Emerson once again ordered them to confirm Adams and Frazier at the board’s “next regularly scheduled meeting,” describing their actions as a “bad faith” stall tactic.

“The court directs the defendant board to comply with its order,” Emerson wrote.

The board of commissioners even filed an emergency motion with the Georgia Supreme Court, which was transferred to the Georgia Court of Appeals and quickly denied.

But even that did not stop them from behaving like petulant children who aren’t getting their way. In a 2-2 vote on Tuesday, with three members absent by the time the vote happened, the board of commissioners failed to pass Republican Commissioner Bridget Thorne’s motion to confirm the appointees. (You can watch the relevant portion of the meeting here, or read an AI-generated transcript here.)

Thorne argued that the unlawful delay caused “irreparable harm,” and noted an upcoming special election for a state senate seat. It’s a point that Fulton County GOP Chair Stephanie Endres has also emphasized. “There are elections happening right now and our representation is being denied,” Endres told me.

In response to Thorne’s motion, Democrat Commissioner Dana Barrett insisted “no judge” could “compel” her to approve the nominations, minutes before claiming to “respect the rule of law.” She told the activists at Democracy Docket she was willing to “risk contempt charges and fines or jail.”

Her fellow Democrat Commissioner Mo Ivory chimed in, saying “No one should force an elected official or any voter to cast a particular vote.” Ironically, Democrats’ complaint about Adams is her decision not to certify the results of a primary election.

Following Wednesday’s vote, Jason Frazier told me he was “disappointed by the decisions of the Democrat board members,” and that his “only goal is to help Fulton County follow election laws and run clean elections.”

Julie Adams said simply, “The Fulton [Board of Commissioners] was ordered to comply with the order of the court on Friday or risk being held in contempt. Today, they defied that order.”

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‘I’m gonna watch him bleed out’: Trump assassination threat suspect armed with explosives offered detailed information about plans to kill POTUS at rally, feds say

A convicted felon in Georgia is behind bars for threatening to kill President Donald Trump in several posts on a TikTok livestream, according to federal authorities.

Jauan Rashun Porter, 29, stands accused of one count of threats against the president and successors to the presidency, according to a 7-page criminal complaint filed in the Northern District of Georgia.

The defendant is a resident of Rome – a medium-sized city located roughly 70 miles northwest of Atlanta – and has previously been convicted of multiple crimes including making terroristic threats, influencing a witness, committing mutiny in a penal institution, drug possession, battery, possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and domestic violence, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Porter’s latest alleged offenses occurred during a TikTok livestream on July 26, according to the complaint. The livestream was about Trump and captioned “Alligator Alcatraz,” a reference to an expansive immigrant detention camp constructed out of repurposed FEMA trailers and soft-sided tents in the Florida Everglades.

Authorities alleged Porter made numerous – often explicit – posts expressing his desire to shoot and kill the 45th and 47th president.

“So there’s only one way to make America great and that is putting a bullet in between Trump’s eyes,” the user said on the livestream.

Similar comments were made several times.

“I’m gonna kill Donald Trump,” the defendant allegedly said.

“I’m gonna put a 7.62 bullet inside of his forehead,” Porter allegedly added, an apparent reference to a common caliber of medium-range ammunition, popularly known as a “Soviet short round” due to its original production as the native bullet for the Kalashnikov rifle, or AK-47. “I’m gonna watch him bleed out and I’m gonna watch him die…I’m gonna do that. Yes. Yes. Me.”

In response to others asking the user to repeat the statements, he allegedly taunted: “I could say it three more times for you.”

In response to a request for his location, Porter allegedly said: “You’ll know. It’ll be on the news… his [POTUS’] rally is coming up pretty soon and I’m going there and I’m going to put a bullet in his head.”

Then, roughly one minute into the video, the defendant allegedly said: “I am going to kill the President of the United States.” Seconds later, the livestream host warned the user about receiving an FBI visit. This warning, however, did not seem to sway him. The man allegedly responded: “I’m gonna kill them too…and then kill myself.”

The host of the livestream finally chafed at the violent language and asked: “Do you think saying something like that is normal behavior?”

The accused user replied: “Normal behavior would be speaking on something and then doing it,” according to the complaint.

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The Government Seized 7 Horses From a Georgia ‘Urban Cowboy.’ A Court Says He Can Sue.

The Constitution pledges that the government cannot take your property without “just compensation.” So if that happens, and no statute passed by the legislature applies to your specific case, can you sue?

That this is even a question may sound, at a minimum, harebrained. After all, the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. But whether or not that promise—as found in the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause—is effectively an empty one when it is not paired with a relevant law is a matter of active legal debate.

A federal court attempted to answer it last week in a case that hinged on, of all things, a local “urban cowboy.”

Fulton County, Georgia, seized seven horses from Brandon “Brannu” Fulton in 2017 after he was charged with animal cruelty. (The identical last name here is an unfortunate coincidence for the sake of clarity, but we will persevere.) Those charges were later dropped. But the government still declined to return the animals to Fulton—long ago dubbed Atlanta’s Urban Cowboy after his affinity for riding into town on horseback—nor would it compensate him for their value. One of those horses, he said, is worth $35,000.

Fulton (the man, not the county) sued under Section 1983, the federal statute that allows plaintiffs to bring lawsuits against state and local governments for violating their constitutional rights. But his suit was ultimately doomed by the Monell doctrine, which shields municipalities from facing liability for such claims unless a plaintiff can pinpoint an official government policy or custom that caused the alleged violation.

Fulton (the county, not the man) didn’t have an applicable policy. And for procedural reasons, the Urban Cowboy’s claims were barred under state law, as well. So he sought to rein back and redirect his complaint to sue directly under the Takings Clause itself.

In what is somewhat of a seismic opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit said he could. “Our Constitution explicitly promises exactly two remedies: ‘just compensation’ if the government takes our property, and the writ of habeas corpus if it tries to take our lives or liberty,” wrote Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum for the majority. “And the Constitution delivers directly on each. It doesn’t taunt us by naming these remedies but then holding them out of reach, depending on the whims of the legislature.”

Many had hoped the Supreme Court would answer this exact question just last year. In DeVillier v. Texas, the justices heard a case brought by people whose property was damaged after the state constructed highway barriers that diverted massive amounts of floodwater onto their private land. Texas did not contest that the Takings Clause necessitates just compensation for people whose private property is taken by the government. But it promptly had the case moved to federal court, where it argued it could not be sued for damages because Congress has not passed a relevant statute ordering Texas to abide by the Takings Clause.

The 5th Circuit agreed.

The Supreme Court did not. In a unanimous opinion, the justices ruled that the plaintiffs could sue Texas—in state court. Yet while the Court agreed the property owners could invoke a state law cause of action, it did not address the broader dispute over whether a legislative cause of action is required at all. “Our precedents do not cleanly answer the question whether a plaintiff has a cause of action arising directly under the Takings Clause,” wrote Justice Clarence Thomas. “But, this case does not require us to resolve that question.”

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“This Case Is Not Closed, It Is Not Dismissed, It Has Not Been Complied With” – Georgia State Election Board Votes to Seek DOJ Assistance to Obtain Voting Records from Fulton County from 2020 Election

The Georgia State Election Board voted on Thursday to seek assistance from the Trump Department of Justice to “bring any action necessary” to obtain the voting records of Fulton County in the corrupt 2020 election.

Fulton County officials still refuse to turn over their 2020 election results.  What are they hiding?

Liz Harrington reported on this development on Thursday. The vote was on Wednesday:

Dr. Janice Johnston demanded the election results to turn over the results. And Johnston also called on the Trump DOJ to assist in this matter.

The resolution passed 3-2 by the board of elections panel.

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Former Voice of America Employee Indicted for Repeatedly Threatening to Murder Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Her Family Between October 2023 and January 2025

A former Voice of America (VOA) employee was indicted on Thursday for repeatedly making anonymous phone calls for over one year, where he threatened to kill Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and her family. 

According to the Indictment, Seth Jason of Maryland “repeatedly threatened to assault and murder the family members of Marjorie Taylor Greene” and “threatened to assault and murder Marjorie Taylor Greene” at her Georgia campaign offices.

Notably, the calls stopped on January 21, 2025, the day after President Trump was inaugurated.

This comes after United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Senior Avisor Kari Lake, who oversees USAGM Affiliates, including VOA, revealed in a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing last month that there was an “active investigation going on at VOA for a series of threatening phone calls that have been coming out,” threatening a member of Congress and that “they’ve discovered that those phone calls were coming from inside the Voice of America.”

Following Lake’s bombshell testimony on her agency’s record of waste, fraud, mismanagement, self-dealing, national security failures, and violent radical employees, President Trump called for the complete destruction of VOA. “KILL IT!” he said on Truth Social.

Lake responded to the new indictment on X, agreeing with President Trump that “it’s time to shut it down.”

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Garland Favorito and VoterGA Appeal Inexplicable Dismissal of Curling vs. Raffensperger Election Ruling

The 8-year-long federal lawsuit seeking to ban voting systems in the State of Georgia that store a voter’s intent on a QR code rather than human-verifiable text ended in April.

Judge Amy Totenberg issued her ruling over a year after the trial concluded, determining that “the Court lacks jurisdiction to consider the merits of Plaintiffs’ claims.”

The Gateway Pundit covered this trial from Day 1 in court, witnessing several egregious manipulations of the voting system demonstrated live and on the record in the courtroom.

University of Michigan computer science professor Dr. J. Alex Halderman successfully hacked the Dominion ICX system in court using a BIC pen in one hack and tools you can purchase on Amazon for several other hacks.

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They Called It Jim Crow, Then Georgia Voters Proved Them Wrong

The Day the Game Got Hijacked

Major League Baseball (MLB) made a scheduling decision regarding the 2021 All-Star Game in Atlanta. The decision was a political statement because of mounting pressure from the Biden Administration, Stacey Abrams, and a litany of virtue-signaling CEOs. In one decision, MLB removed any doubt that it didn’t have the baseballs when it moved the All-Star Game to Denver, Col.

Why were the wolves howling four years ago? Because the state of Georgia had the temerity to pass an election integrity bill, Senate Bill 202. Democrats, without any evidence, described the bill as “Jim Crow on steroids.” Stacy Abrams, that bastion of integrity, called for economic boycotts. 

Later, when her state lost millions in tourism revenue and small income, she feigned regret. Meanwhile, corporate giants like Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines piled on. The lame-stream media echoed their scripts with such vigor that we were shocked that their pom-poms didn’t get caught in their teeth.

We didn’t witness political theater as much as it was an act of narrative warfare.

Remember the Lies They Told

News readers on MSNBC and CNN warned us that the sky was falling because voter suppression was imminent. This new Georgia law, they claimed again without proof, would disenfranchise Black voters disproportionately by restricting early voting, limiting drop boxes, and requiring voter ID, something framed as a modern-day poll tax.

Ironically, Colorado, now hosting the All-Star Game, had similar voter ID requirements. Similar, but not an improvement. Georgia’s law expanded early voting days to 17 statewide, more than what some blue states offer. Never mind that absentee ballots could be requested with relative ease as long as you proved who you said you were.

Like everything on the Left, facts didn’t matter. If they said you were a suppressed voter, then by golly, you were one suppressed voter. The left found a convenient villain: Georgia.

With that, Biden, Abrams, and every late-night TV host from Kimmel to Colbert repeated “Jim Crow” like a religious mantra. The goal wasn’t to debate the law’s merits; it was to teach Georgia the lesson that it had acted too boldly, too rashly, and too independently.

Here’s What Actually Happened

So what became of the doom they predicted? Georgia held elections again, several of them. And the result?

Record-breaking voter turnout.

In the 2022 primary, early voting surged by 212% compared to 2018. Turnout among Black voters not only matched but, in some counties, surpassed previous years. According to a University of Georgia survey, 99% of voters reported having no problem voting. Even liberal polling outfits struggled to reconcile the numbers with the narrative they’d pushed.

In other words, the so-called “suppression law” didn’t suppress anything except the credibility of those who screamed the loudest.

And yet, few apologies came. No one from the Biden administration issued a correction. Stacey Abrams never acknowledged the economic damage caused by her boycott campaign. Why should they? The drive-bys were following orders to leave them alone.

After cutting ties with Georgia in 2021, MLB quietly announced in 2023 that the All-Star Game would return to Atlanta in 2025. 

No press conference. No mea culpa. Just a quiet reversal that no one would notice.

But we noticed.

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