Five Black women district attorneys in Atlanta, Georgia, will be forced to run in nonpartisan elections under a new Georgia law that two of the prosecutors are now challenging in court.
House Bill 369, signed by Gov. Brian Kemp in May, according to The Atlanta-Journal Constitution (AJC), requires district attorneys in Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties to run in nonpartisan elections beginning in 2028, according to the Georgia Legislature.
The law applies to counties that have abolished the elected coroner position in favor of a medical examiner. Only five of Georgia’s 159 counties currently meet that definition: Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb and Clayton…