The fate of a Georgia law that will make the district attorney’s seat and other roles nonpartisan in five metro Atlanta counties rests in the hands of a Fulton County judge after two district attorneys filed lawsuits challenging the measure.
Lawyers for the state of Georgia had urged Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas A. Cox to dismiss one of the challenges, but in an order issued on Monday, Sept. 21, Cox denied their motion.
“This Court is not deciding at this stage whether HB 369 is constitutional,” he wrote in his ruling, but stated that the plaintiffs had provided enough evidence to allow the case to move forward…