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All this does is take tons of revenue that would have gone to black businesses in Atlanta and give it to white liberals in Colorado. Well done, leftists
There weren’t any drop boxes in GA before COVID hit. They could’ve gone back to that but decided to keep at least one in every county. I’m so sick of this BS of wokeness. I will not go to another baseball game. I live in CO and you couldn’t pay me enough to go
the assumption that blacks do not have the same wherewithal as whites to get or find their id to vote is vile and racist. color should not be the basis for making assumptions about ones ability.
The National Basketball Association, the Main stream media and Major League Baseball have decided to be political action committee's for Biden/Harris and the Democrat party. In addition, the following companies below worked on Joe Biden's behalf, fund raised, and campaigned for the Biden, BLM and other far left activist organizations.
Financial Boycott whenever possible the following Democrat supporters.
NBA, WNBA, MLB, Home Depot, Modelo Beer, Verizon, State Farm Insurance, Progressive Insurance, ESPN, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, Discovery Channel, Discovery Plus, TNT, TBS, TLC, PBS, OWN, Oxygen, Bloomberg, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Google, Sonic, US Bank, Coca-Cola products, Best Buy, Wayfair, Kohls, Cigna, Delta, Microsoft, (And any companies advertising with the above.) Pass this along.
People will start to realize that major league baseball is just as boring as a Joe Biden speech, and we are now realizing that Pepsi tastes better than Coke
Its infuriating how blatantly racist it is to act like these rules dont apply to everyone… and that minorities arent as capable as white. That's literally what they're saying.
MLB should not be taking any political position EVER! Baseball has always been one of the few places one can ESCAPE the stress and aggravation of the world for a few hours, and enjoy a beloved game. Now, the Commissioner of the sport itself, has taken it in a direction that destroys that luxury. Shame on him, and shame on baseball. I hope Atlanta's All-Stars this season (if any) boycott the game in CO.
as I sit here watching Oakland playing the Dodgers,how sickening putting a guy on 2nd without evening earning it.makes me want to gag.boycott mlb people.its a joke
MLB is dead to me. Send a real message to these woke idiots. I love baseball but I’ll learn to love golf, tennis or swimming instead. How about corn hole? Now thats a great sport.
A very smart business man refused to put political posters in the window of his business, even for candidates that he supported. He said that once you do that you upset half of your potential customers.
So the all stars owner seems like a biget if he's moving the game from a predominantly minority state to a state that is predominantly WHITE! LOOSE MONEY FOR MINORITY PEOPLE = GIVE MORE MONEY TO WHITES Am I the ONLY one that sees this???
Americans must demand federal action to protect voting rights as we continue to fight against these blatantly unconstitutional efforts that are nothing less than Jim Crow 2.0," 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams said in a statement through her voting rights group Fair Fight Action, referring to the laws that institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination.
CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS SUE GEORGIA OVER NEW SWEEPING VOTER SUPPRESSION LAW
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MARCH 30, 2021
ATLANTA — Civil rights groups have filed a new federal lawsuit against Georgia’s sweeping law that makes it much harder for all Georgians to vote, particularly voters of color, new citizens, and religious communities.
The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Georgia, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and law firms WilmerHale and Davis Wright Tremaine brought the case on behalf of the Sixth District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Georgia Muslim Voter Project, Women Watch Afrika, Latino Community Fund Georgia, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
The law being challenged is S.B. 202, which was passed by the Georgia House of Representatives and Senate and signed by Gov. Brian Kemp in under seven hours last Thursday. These elected officials’ actions follow the 2020 presidential election and the 2021 runoff elections for two seats to the U.S. Senate that saw record turnout of voters, particularly Black voters, in Georgia. The elections were celebrated not just for their turnout, but also for their integrity, with Georgia officials praising them as safe and secure. But rather than act to expand participation in the political process, Georgia leaders responded by doing what they have done many times in the state’s history: they placed burdensome, unjustified, and unnecessary restrictions on voters, particularly voters of color and other historically disenfranchised communities.
The lawsuit challenges multiple provisions in S.B. 202, including the:
ban on mobile voting
new narrow identification requirements for requesting and casting an absentee ballot
delayed and compressed time period for requesting absentee ballots
drastic reduction in early voting in runoff elections
perhaps most cruelly, ban on “line warming,” where volunteers provide water and snacks to Georgians, disproportionately those of color, who wait in needlessly long lines to cast their vote
These provisions, the lawsuit charges, violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and infringe on Georgians’ rights under the First, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
“This law is driven by blatant racism, represents politics at its very worst, and is clearly illegal,” said Sophia Lakin, deputy director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project. “We urge the court to act swiftly to strike it down.”
“Legislators and Governor Kemp ignored the very obvious lessons from the election in 2020 and runoffs in 2021: expand safe and secure access to the ballot, codify innovations to voting, and provide additional resources to cash-strapped counties,” said Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the SPLC. “Instead, to appease conspiracy theorists and amplify deadly lies about past elections, Georgia’s leaders have chosen to pass into law S.B. 202, which makes it more difficult for every Georgian — but particularly Georgians who are members of historically disenfranchised communities — to vote in a safe, secure, and convenient manner and have that vote counted. In so doing, the defendants have violated federal law and the U.S. Constitution, and we turn to the federal courts and U.S. Congress to address the incredible harm S.B. 202 will have on our clients.”
“S.B. 202 is perhaps the most bold and shameful voter suppression legislation enacted in the modern era. Its purpose and target are clear: to create barriers to voting for Black voters who turned out in record numbers for the November 2020 presidential election and the January 2021 special election. The provisions of the new law and the manner in which it was enacted reflect a thorough disregard for the sanctity of protecting the right to vote and a headlong and determined zeal to diminish Black political power in Georgia,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s president and director-counsel. “This is a powerful moment for democracy in this country. S.B. 202’s attempt to disenfranchise Black voters in Georgia harkens back to the most shameful days of voter suppression in the decades before the civil rights movement. That this law was passed in Georgia, less than a year after the death of one of the state’s greatest heroes, Representative John Lewis, is shameful. In his name, we will fight to strike down this illegal attempt to undo his legacy. Anything less represents a grave threat to the future of our democracy and inherently undermines the notion of equality for all.”
“Democracy depends upon people expressing their voices freely through their votes,” said WilmerHale partner Debo P. Adegbile. “The Georgia omnibus voting obstruction law is a prime example of modern voter suppression and erodes democracy. A great deal has changed in Georgia but the commitment to brazenly disenfranchise voters clearly has not.”
“S.B. 202 attacks the most sacred foundations of our democracy. But in this country, the law secures every American citizen the equal right to make their voice heard at the ballot box, no matter who they are. And we intend to vindicate that right in court,” said Adam Sieff, attorney at Davis Wright Tremaine.
The lawsuit, Sixth District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church v. Kemp, was filed late last night in federal court in Atlanta.
Too bad- Politicians are upset they can't rule the world. It is still a free country, no matter how quick they try to take away our rights & liberties, we have intelligent individuals on the bench, in our courts that make the rulings- not Mitch or any other popular ATTACKERS OF OUR REPUBLIC.
Shameful, most are Republicans attacking our REPUBLIC-!!
Lol. No more aunt jemima, and other black icons on products but they didnt touch any of the white icons (quaker oats, burger boy, etc) and put all star game money in a 90% white community. KEEP GOING CANCEL CULTURE!! I LOVE IT!! Lol
Baseball is ingrained in my family’s dna. But first we are Americans and mlb sold us out for something they know is a lie. My family is 100% done with mlb. We will never look back
MLB wants to celebrate african americans, tribute to Hank Aaron, by removing the all-star game from a city that's 55% black, and giving it to a city that's 70% white / 10% black, and in a state which by pretty much every racism accusation lobbed at Georgia, Colorado's voting laws are equal or worse. This decision has nothing to do with racism, it is strictly partisan politics being played by an organization that should not engage in politics. The team I followed even last year put out a public letter basically saying if you're not a democrat then you are not wanted as a fan of the organization. I stopped watching, obviously stopped attending games because we couldn't, stopped buying merchandise, and baseball is quickly becoming but a faded memory.
All this does is take tons of revenue that would have gone to black businesses in Atlanta and give it to white liberals in Colorado. Well done, leftists
I hope the MLB changes his mind, and keeps the game in GEORGIA…. GEORGIA needs the pump into their economy more than COLORADO.
STOP THE STUPIDITY !!!!
There weren’t any drop boxes in GA before COVID hit. They could’ve gone back to that but decided to keep at least one in every county. I’m so sick of this BS of wokeness. I will not go to another baseball game. I live in CO and you couldn’t pay me enough to go
“Tie ball game and a pitching change being made now…so let’s take a moment to talk about voting reform as the hard throwing Leftie warms up”
the assumption that blacks do not have the same wherewithal as whites to get or find their id to vote is vile and racist. color should not be the basis for making assumptions about ones ability.
The National Basketball Association, the Main stream media and Major League Baseball have decided to be political action committee's for Biden/Harris and the Democrat party. In addition, the following companies below worked on Joe Biden's behalf, fund raised, and campaigned for the Biden, BLM and other far left activist organizations.
Financial Boycott whenever possible the following Democrat supporters.
NBA, WNBA, MLB, Home Depot, Modelo Beer, Verizon, State Farm Insurance, Progressive Insurance, ESPN, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, Discovery Channel, Discovery Plus, TNT, TBS, TLC, PBS, OWN, Oxygen, Bloomberg, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Google, Sonic, US Bank, Coca-Cola products, Best Buy, Wayfair, Kohls, Cigna, Delta, Microsoft, (And any companies advertising with the above.) Pass this along.
Hit them where it count$!
People will start to realize that major league baseball is just as boring as a Joe Biden speech, and we are now realizing that Pepsi tastes better than Coke
Its infuriating how blatantly racist it is to act like these rules dont apply to everyone… and that minorities arent as capable as white. That's literally what they're saying.
MLB should not be taking any political position EVER! Baseball has always been one of the few places one can ESCAPE the stress and aggravation of the world for a few hours, and enjoy a beloved game. Now, the Commissioner of the sport itself, has taken it in a direction that destroys that luxury. Shame on him, and shame on baseball. I hope Atlanta's All-Stars this season (if any) boycott the game in CO.
Oh yeah one more thing we have the worst and I mean the worst president this country has ever seen. This man is and will continue to divide us. POS!
Shame on MLB.
as I sit here watching Oakland playing the Dodgers,how sickening putting a guy on 2nd without evening earning it.makes me want to gag.boycott mlb people.its a joke
Atlanta voted woke Democrat. They get what they voted for. Abrams also pushed for mlb to move game.
cancelled MLB and Delta skymiles
MLB is dead to me. Send a real message
to these woke idiots. I love baseball but I’ll learn to love golf, tennis or swimming instead. How about corn hole? Now thats a great sport.
I always LIked Atlanta Braves
I am registered voter every time I went to vote I Had to show my ID
no matter if you are black-brown we all have to show ID this is GA constitution
So MLB moved All Star Games from 51% black city to 69% white city. I am confused!
A very smart business man refused to put political posters in the window of his business, even for candidates that he supported. He said that once you do that you upset half of your potential customers.
MLB can get all its money from Democlansmen. Cool!
Get woke , go broke .
BOYCOTT THEM ALL. They only want billion dollar profits. Bring to their knees. Teach them a lesson.
Kneel , cry , thought folks weren't this childish . You give an inch people want it All ..f yall
So the all stars owner seems like a biget if he's moving the game from a predominantly minority state to a state that is predominantly WHITE!
LOOSE MONEY FOR MINORITY PEOPLE = GIVE MORE MONEY TO WHITES
Am I the ONLY one that sees this???
Cancellers won’t stop until they ruin everything that used to be fun in American life. If they come to your party they’ll step on your cake.
Americans must demand federal action to protect voting rights as we continue to fight against these blatantly unconstitutional efforts that are nothing less than Jim Crow 2.0," 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams said in a statement through her voting rights group Fair Fight Action, referring to the laws that institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination.
CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS SUE GEORGIA OVER NEW SWEEPING VOTER SUPPRESSION LAW
Facebook
Twitter
Reddit
Email
Print
MARCH 30, 2021
ATLANTA — Civil rights groups have filed a new federal lawsuit against Georgia’s sweeping law that makes it much harder for all Georgians to vote, particularly voters of color, new citizens, and religious communities.
The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Georgia, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and law firms WilmerHale and Davis Wright Tremaine brought the case on behalf of the Sixth District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Georgia Muslim Voter Project, Women Watch Afrika, Latino Community Fund Georgia, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
The law being challenged is S.B. 202, which was passed by the Georgia House of Representatives and Senate and signed by Gov. Brian Kemp in under seven hours last Thursday. These elected officials’ actions follow the 2020 presidential election and the 2021 runoff elections for two seats to the U.S. Senate that saw record turnout of voters, particularly Black voters, in Georgia.
The elections were celebrated not just for their turnout, but also for their integrity, with Georgia officials praising them as safe and secure. But rather than act to expand participation in the political process, Georgia leaders responded by doing what they have done many times in the state’s history: they placed burdensome, unjustified, and unnecessary restrictions on voters, particularly voters of color and other historically disenfranchised communities.
The lawsuit challenges multiple provisions in S.B. 202, including the:
ban on mobile voting
new narrow identification requirements for requesting and casting an absentee ballot
delayed and compressed time period for requesting absentee ballots
restrictions on secure drop boxes
out-of-precinct provisional ballot disqualification
drastic reduction in early voting in runoff elections
perhaps most cruelly, ban on “line warming,” where volunteers provide water and snacks to Georgians, disproportionately those of color, who wait in needlessly long lines to cast their vote
These provisions, the lawsuit charges, violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and infringe on Georgians’ rights under the First, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
“This law is driven by blatant racism, represents politics at its very worst, and is clearly illegal,” said Sophia Lakin, deputy director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project. “We urge the court to act swiftly to strike it down.”
“Legislators and Governor Kemp ignored the very obvious lessons from the election in 2020 and runoffs in 2021: expand safe and secure access to the ballot, codify innovations to voting, and provide additional resources to cash-strapped counties,” said Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director for the SPLC. “Instead, to appease conspiracy theorists and amplify deadly lies about past elections, Georgia’s leaders have chosen to pass into law S.B. 202, which makes it more difficult for every Georgian — but particularly Georgians who are members of historically disenfranchised communities — to vote in a safe, secure, and convenient manner and have that vote counted. In so doing, the defendants have violated federal law and the U.S. Constitution, and we turn to the federal courts and U.S. Congress to address the incredible harm S.B. 202 will have on our clients.”
“S.B. 202 is perhaps the most bold and shameful voter suppression legislation enacted in the modern era. Its purpose and target are clear: to create barriers to voting for Black voters who turned out in record numbers for the November 2020 presidential election and the January 2021 special election. The provisions of the new law and the manner in which it was enacted reflect a thorough disregard for the sanctity of protecting the right to vote and a headlong and determined zeal to diminish Black political power in Georgia,” said Sherrilyn Ifill, LDF’s president and director-counsel. “This is a powerful moment for democracy in this country. S.B. 202’s attempt to disenfranchise Black voters in Georgia harkens back to the most shameful days of voter suppression in the decades before the civil rights movement. That this law was passed in Georgia, less than a year after the death of one of the state’s greatest heroes, Representative John Lewis, is shameful. In his name, we will fight to strike down this illegal attempt to undo his legacy. Anything less represents a grave threat to the future of our democracy and inherently undermines the notion of equality for all.”
“Democracy depends upon people expressing their voices freely through their votes,” said WilmerHale partner Debo P. Adegbile. “The Georgia omnibus voting obstruction law is a prime example of modern voter suppression and erodes democracy. A great deal has changed in Georgia but the commitment to brazenly disenfranchise voters clearly has not.”
“S.B. 202 attacks the most sacred foundations of our democracy. But in this country, the law secures every American citizen the equal right to make their voice heard at the ballot box, no matter who they are. And we intend to vindicate that right in court,” said Adam Sieff, attorney at Davis Wright Tremaine.
The lawsuit, Sixth District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church v. Kemp, was filed late last night in federal court in Atlanta.
Complaint: https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/sixth-district-african-methodist-episcopal-church-v-kemp
Statement: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/civil-rights-groups-sue-georgia-over-new-sweeping-voter-suppression-law
Too bad-
Politicians are upset they can't rule the world. It is still a free country, no matter how quick they try to take away our rights & liberties, we have intelligent individuals on the bench, in our courts that make the rulings- not Mitch or any other popular
ATTACKERS
OF
OUR
REPUBLIC.
Shameful, most are Republicans attacking our REPUBLIC-!!
HOW SELF DEFEATING
& SELF DESTROYING–
SUCH AN UNHEALTHY LIFESTYLE!
It had always been a requirement to have I.D. TO VOTE-. DUH!
Lol. No more aunt jemima, and other black icons on products but they didnt touch any of the white icons (quaker oats, burger boy, etc) and put all star game money in a 90% white community. KEEP GOING CANCEL CULTURE!! I LOVE IT!! Lol
You need an i.d. to buy nyquil from Walgreens but you dont need one to vote. 🤔
Kemp, your party's agenda is not popular with the people. Examine your priorities and stop crying about reasonable people and their decisions.
I was going to buy the $140 MLB TV game package, not anymore. I won't give a dime to MLB anymore.
Baseball is ingrained in my family’s dna.
But first we are Americans and mlb sold us out for something they know is a lie. My family is 100% done with mlb. We will never look back
So evil
No game in GA
People love all-star game
Now new civil war 2
Shame on you cowards of MLB! You are hurting your own people…with the endorsement of that nursing home escapee sitting in the White House.
MLB wants to celebrate african americans, tribute to Hank Aaron, by removing the all-star game from a city that's 55% black, and giving it to a city that's 70% white / 10% black, and in a state which by pretty much every racism accusation lobbed at Georgia, Colorado's voting laws are equal or worse. This decision has nothing to do with racism, it is strictly partisan politics being played by an organization that should not engage in politics. The team I followed even last year put out a public letter basically saying if you're not a democrat then you are not wanted as a fan of the organization. I stopped watching, obviously stopped attending games because we couldn't, stopped buying merchandise, and baseball is quickly becoming but a faded memory.
Wokeball is not coming in this house ever again I won't spend a red cent on wokeball
SPREAD THIS INFO: LIBERTY MEDIA WHICH OWNS THE ATLANTA BRAVES IS HEADQUARTERED IN ENGLEWOOD COLORADO. THATS THE REAL REASON FOR LOCATION CHANGE