Brian Kemp clarified his executive orders to block Atlanta and 14 other local governments from requiring face coverings Georgia governor Brian Kemp is suing Atlanta city officials to block them from enforcing masks in public. Photograph: Mike Stewart/AP The governor of Georgia is suing Atlanta’s mayor and city council to block the city from enforcing…
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is taking Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and the City Council to court to block the city's mask-wearing mandate. Mike Stewart/AP hide caption toggle caption Mike Stewart/AP Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is taking Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and the City Council to court to block the city's mask-wearing mandate. Mike…
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is suing Atlanta to block the city from enforcing its mandate to wear a mask in public and other rules related to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying in a court filing that the city's leadership was illegally circumventing state executive orders with their own edicts.Kemp and Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, in…
Several Georgia mayors have lashed out over Gov. Brian Kemp’s (R) Wednesday order overriding local mandates requiring residents to wear a mask or face covering amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, vowing to continue enforcing local rules. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) said in a Thursday news conference that “it’s my belief that the city of…
“It’s my belief that the city of Atlanta still has the appropriate standing to mandate masks,” Bottoms said at a news conference on Thursday. “Especially as it relates to buildings and places that we own and operate.” Mayor Van Johnson of Savannah told MSNBC on Thursday that he was “flabbergasted” by Kemp’s order. “On one…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…