Kemp and Georgia AG shield MAGA SEB members from removal

The battle over the SEB's "activist rule-making" continues... The RNC and the GA GOP are fighting to purge voters... Debate prep notes.

There are nine weeks until Election Day, and if the onslaught of lawsuits, voter purges, electioneering tactics, and narrative-shaping from right-wing media is any indication, we are about to enter a hellish few months of all-out political warfare over the specifics of how this election is carried out, whose votes will be seen as legal, and who will ultimately be deemed the winner.

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The fighting over the MAGA majority now in charge of the Georgia State Election Board continues apace. On Friday, Attorney General Chris Carr issued a somewhat unexpected (and, arguably, bizarre) opinion that absolved Gov. Brian Kemp from any responsibility over what is a rogue and activist SEB working on behalf of Donald Trump and his election denier movement. In the letter, Carr quibbled over what constitutes a “formal” complaint made against officials like those on the SEB. Apparently, the complaint that was filed — from former Fulton County election board member and Democrat Cathy Woolard — was not “formal” enough for Carr’s liking. Because of this, Carr advised Kemp that the governor does not have to initiate administrative hearings that would judge whether the three MAGA members of the SEB should be removed. What would constitute a proper “formal” complaint? Carr doesn’t really say. But one would think that Democrat members of the state legislature filing a complaint similar to Woolard’s would count as such. That’s probably the next step in this saga.