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Yahoo
09-04-2025
- Politics
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Washington Post columnist trashes colleagues, says editor robbed him of his humanity in memoir: report
A former member of the Washington Post editorial board accused a colleague of robbing him of his humanity and confessed to going to HR over a line in an editorial he disagreed with, according to a review of his upcoming memoir. Jonathan Capehart wrote he was sent into an "eye-popping rage" that caused him to quit the Washington Post editorial board and fire off a frantic email to HR over a sentence in an editorial concerning Georgia's "Election Integrity Act of 2021," according to a review written by Chronicles Magazine's Mark Judge, who obtained an early copy of the book. Former President Joe Biden had called the Peach State's voting law, which placed restrictions on mail-in voting and gave state officials more control over how elections were run, "Jim Crow 2.0". Major corporate backlash hit the state after the bill's passage, including the MLB pulling the 2021 All-Star game from the state, and the Biden administration launched a lawsuit against the state. Trump Applauds Jeff Bezos' Changes At Washington Post In Rare Media Praise In his memoir, "Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man's Search for Home," Capehart recalls meeting where the Election Integrity Act was discussed with the Washington Post's editorial board that particularly unnerved him, and ultimately led to his quitting the board altogether. "How could it be voter suppression if all these people are coming out to vote?" Washington Post editorial board member Karen Tumulty had allegedly asked. Read On The Fox News App Capehart, who is also an MSNBC host and PBS contributor, wrote that the meeting had so "disturbed" him that he penned an email to everyone present. When the editorial board wrote that Georgia's voter turnout "remained high despite hyperbolic warnings by President Biden and other Democrats that updated voting rules amounted to Jim Crow 2.0," in a 2022 editorial. Capehart wrote that he was sent into an "eye popping rage." The journalist wrote that his anger at the line was so piqued that it ultimately led to him quitting the editorial board in 2023. Msnbc Host Fights Back Tears During Jan. 6 Segment: 'I'm Going To Try To Get Through This' "I was sitting at my desk in the den of my apartment when I read the editorial in the print edition on December 8. A fine, perfectly reasonable piece … Reasonable until I hit the third sentence of the fifth paragraph. I was a tornado of emotions, eye-popping rage, and disbelief. I couldn't stay." Capehart wrote that he emailed his resignation from the editorial board to Washington Post staff and reported his frustrations surrounding the editorial to HR. Capehart is still an opinion writer for the paper. The memoir details a subsequent, contentious, meeting he had with Tumulty in which she apologized for "misunderstandings" between them, but defended the use of the word "hyperbolic" to describe Biden's criticisms of the law. "I do think use of the word 'hyperbolic' is defensible… I have a rule: No one should be called a Nazi unless they were an actual Nazi,' she told me. 'So for President Biden to call the Georgia voter law 'Jim Crow 2.0,' well that's an insult to people who lived through Jim Crow,'" Tumulty allegedly said. Capehart wrote that he felt he was being "punked" by his colleague, and said she "robbed me of my humanity." He wrote that he sat gripping his chair as Tumulty made her remarks, and claimed that she had made a racial situation "worse." "She either couldn't or wouldn't see that I was Black, that I came to the conversation with knowledge and history she could never have, that my worldview, albeit it different from hers, was equally valid," Capehart wrote. Reviewer Mark Judge described Capehart's behavior as a "hissy fit" in his review, and said Tumulty's only crime was treating him "like an adult." "You don't go to HR because you disagree with an editorial, grow up," Judge told Fox News Digital. Tumulty told Fox News Digital she had not seen Capehart's book. Capehart did not respond to a request for comment. The Washington Post did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request to article source: Washington Post columnist trashes colleagues, says editor robbed him of his humanity in memoir: report
Yahoo
01-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
'Georgians deserve secure elections': Trump Administration to drop suit over election law
While there is no election going on, Georgia voting is back under the national spotlight. On Monday, the Department of Justice issued a news release detailing how they had been directed to dismiss a lawsuit from last year about a 2021 Georgia elections law. Here's what we know: SB 202 a.k.a. the "Election Integrity Act of 2021" was signed into law following the 2020 presidential election which many Republicans have called into question. The law placed new restrictions on early and absentee voting, imposed stricter ID verification requirements on mail-in ballots, and shortened the window of time in which voters could request absentee ballots be sent to them. Free tax services: Still need to file your tax return? University of Georgia will do it for free. Here's how The law also capped the number of absentee ballot drop boxes to one per 100,000 residents, and removed a pandemic-era provision that allowed voters to access drop boxes outside of regular business hours. It also restricts third-party organizations from distributing absentee ballot applications and imposes a $100 penalty for each duplicate absentee ballot application sent to voters in Georgia. The chief sponsor of the Election Integrity Act was Georgia Sen. Max Burns with its sponsor in the Georgia House being Barry Fleming. The law also had more than 20 other sponsors. On Jan. 31, 2024, the DOJ, under President Joe Biden, filed a consolidated lawsuit called "In Re Georgia SB 202." The argument was that it intended to disenfranchise Black voters and failed to provide people with disabilities an equal opportunity to vote. "Rather than celebrating Georgians' record-breaking turnout and success in conducting two secure elections in a span of two months, the Georgia General Assembly instead enacted Senate Bill 202 ... through a secretive and extremely accelerated legislative process, with little to no opportunity for public input or review," the lawsuit noted. "SB 202 directly and severely burdens Plaintiffs' core political speech, which includes communications and expressive activities aimed at encouraging voters to participate in the political process through absentee voting." In the news release, Trump Administration officials said the Biden administration "fabricated an untrue narrative" around Georgia's election law and said officials at the time were "demonizing Georgians for political gain and triggering boycotts." "Georgians deserve secure elections, not fabricated claims of false voter suppression meant to divide us," said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. "Americans can be confident that this Department of Justice will protect their vote and never play politics with election integrity." Gov. Brian Kemp said via X, "Despite the lies and misinformation from Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, and their allies, Georgia is one of the top states in the country for early voting and experienced record voter turnout in multiple elections since the passage of the Elections Integrity Act. I am grateful that under the leadership of [Attorney General Pamela Bondi] and [President Donald Trump], the DOJ has followed the truth: in Georgia, it is easy to vote and hard to cheat." Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda Executive Director Helen Butler expressed her disappointment, saying the law does suppress votes and plans to pursue their own legal challenge. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said "This reaffirms that the Election Integrity Act stands on solid legal commitment has always been to ensure fair and secure elections for every Georgian, despite losing an All-Star game and the left's boycott of Georgia as a result of commonsense election law." April England-Albright, national legal director for Black Voters Matter, said "Just as Black people have historically stood firm against a weaponized and radicalized Department of Justice and continued to fight back to increase political and economic rights in this response to this and other harmful and egregious decisions from Trump's DOJ will be no different, and we will win." Miguel Legoas is a Deep South Connect Team Reporter for Gannett/USA Today. Find him on X and Instagram @miguelegoas and email at mlegoas@ This article originally appeared on Athens Banner-Herald: DOJ to drop Biden-era lawsuit over Georgia election law
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Politics
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Bondi dismisses Biden-era lawsuit against Georgia election law
Attorney General Pam Bondi has called off a federal lawsuit that challenged a controversial Georgia election law Republicans passed after former President Biden beat President Trump in the state's 2020 presidential election. The law, which Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed in 2021, makes it illegal to provide food or water to voters waiting in lines to cast their ballots, among other sweeping measures, which Democrats criticized as efforts to suppress voter turnout. The Biden administration filed a lawsuit seeking to block the measure, dubbed the Election Integrity Act, with Biden calling the law 'Jim Crow in the 21st century.' Bondi, in a scathing release from the Department of Justice on Monday announcing the lawsuit's dismissal, accused the Biden administration of creating 'an untrue narrative' about the law. 'Contrary to the Biden Administration's false claims of suppression, Black voter turnout actually increased under (the law),' she said in a statement. 'Georgians deserve secure elections, not fabricated claims of false voter suppression meant to divide us.' The law triggered a wave of high-profile boycotts and counter-measures after its initial passage, including the relocation of the 2021 Major League Baseball (MLB) All-Star Game that was slated to take place in Atlanta that year. It was also a central plot point in a season of Larry David's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' The law expands voter identification requirements, limits the use of ballot drop boxes and bars counties from deploying mobile voting units in most cases, in addition to the ban on provisions for people waiting in line to vote. Former President Carter, a Georgia native and Democrat who died in December, was among several vocal critics of the changes. Georgia, which went in Trump's favor last year, saw record voter turnout in 2024. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), who has defended the law and advocated for the lawsuit's dismissal, praised the DOJ's decision Monday. 'This reaffirms that the Election Integrity Act stands on solid legal ground,' he said in a statement his office provided to The Hill. 'Our commitment has always been to ensure fair and secure elections for every Georgian, despite losing an All-Star game and the left's boycott of Georgia as a result of commonsense election law.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Hill
31-03-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
Bondi dismisses Biden-era lawsuit against Georgia election law
Attorney General Pam Bondi has called off a federal lawsuit that challenged a controversial Georgia election law Republicans passed after former President Biden beat President Trump in the state's 2020 presidential election. The law, which Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed in 2021, makes it illegal to provide food or water to voters waiting in lines to cast their ballots, among other sweeping measures, which Democrats criticized as efforts to suppress voter turnout. The Biden administration filed a lawsuite seeking to block the measure, dubbed the Election Integrity Act, with Biden calling the law 'Jim Crow in the 21st century.' Bondi, in a scathing release from the Department of Justice on Monday announcing the lawsuit's dismissal, accused the Biden administration of creating 'an untrue narrative' about the law. 'Contrary to the Biden Administration's false claims of suppression, Black voter turnout actually increased under (the law),' she said in a statement. 'Georgians deserve secure elections, not fabricated claims of false voter suppression meant to divide us.' The law triggered a wave of high-profile boycotts and counter-measures after its initial passage, including the relocation of the 2021 Major League Baseball (MLB) All-Star Game that was slated to take place in Atlanta that year. It was also a central plot point in a season of Larry David's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' 2024 Election Coverage The law expands voter identification requirements, limits the use of ballot drop boxes and bars counties from deploying mobile voting units in most cases, in addition to the ban on provisions for people waiting in line to vote. Former President Carter, a Georgia native and Democrat who died in December, was among several vocal critics of the changes. Georgia, which went in Trump's favor last year, saw record voter turnout in 2024.
