Georgia legislature tries hard to set the state back

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Georgia passes bill restricting discussion of race in schools

The Georgia general assembly has passed a bill targeting the discussion of race in schools that also paves the way for transgender students to be banned from playing sport on girls’ teams, after a late-night legislative session on Monday.

HB1084 bans the teaching of nine so-called “divisive concepts”, including that the US is “fundamentally racist” and that “one race is inherently superior to another race”.

The “divisive concepts” are almost identical those identified in an executive order signed by then president Donald Trump in 2020, which sought to ban them from federal worker training. The bill also establishes a process for local school boards to vet parents’ complaints over teaching of the concepts.

The bill is the latest in a line of state moves seeking to curb the discussion of race in schools and ban critical race theory, an academic discipline that examines the ways in which racism operates in US laws and society which has become a lightning-rod issue for Republicans.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/georgia-passes-bill-restricting-discussion-of-race-in-schools/ar-AAVSeLr

Georgia passes bill giving state law enforcement agency power to investigate elections

Georgia lawmakers passed a bill on their final day of session that would give new election policing powers to the state's bureau of investigation.

Georgia is the second state after Florida to pass an election police force bill this year as Republicans continue to falsely claim the 2020 election was rife with voter fraud.

Under SB 441, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation would be able to launch a probe without being called in by another law enforcement agency. The bill also gives the bureau the authority to subpoena election records with signoff from the state's attorney general. Currently, state election officials investigate fraud allegations.

The overall bill mostly deals with criminal data processing, an issue which had bipartisan support. Republican state Rep. James Burchett tacked on the GBI provision to the bill in the final hours of the session, prompting outcries from Democratic supporters of the original bill.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/georgia-passes-bill-giving-state-law-enforcement-agency-power-to-investigate-elections/ar-AAVT7lg

[CurtEastPoint]

1. As a Georgian, this saddens/angers me because there is SO much good in GA then we have this...

Goddamned republicans. MFers should burn in hell.

[Casady1]

2. I know East Point well

I used to sell cash registers down there. I live on the Northside. These republicans are REDNECKS.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. This is year 50 for me in Atlanta. Lived in SSpgs, Dunw, Buckhead and EP (30 years)

They are ignorant trash.

[Hoyt]

4. Georgia Rubes are going to have a hard time with "one race is [not] inherently superior to another."

[Hoyt]

5. Obviously, GBI investigating elections is subject to abuse, but GBI didn't buy trump's 2020 big lie.

"The GBI previously found no fraud after it assisted investigations of absentee ballot signatures, counterfeit ballots and ballot collection."

https://www.ajc.com/politics/lawmakers-revive-much-of-georgia-elections-bill-on-last-day-of-session/B24EDVAE35ANXMKJPE3TUHQ4NM/