Brandi Buchman is a legal/justice reporter at HuffPost, based in Washington, D.C. She covers the U.S. Justice Department, federal courts, and issues where law and politics intersect. She has reported on the Trump administration at length including both impeachments of former President Donald Trump, the Jan.
A judge in Georgia ’s Fulton County ruled Monday that election board officials cannot “play investigator, prosecutor, jury, and judge” by refusing to certify election results based on their unilateral suspicions of fraud and more. Theis a major setback for a Donald Trump -fueled effort to empower local officials to challenge or block election results in the state that polls show will be very close in November.
Board members are imbued with powers to conduct primaries and assess that they are unfolding “honestly, efficiently and uniformly conducted,” the judge wrote. “Regardless of the characterization of the election superintendent’s role in certifying election results, that certification … is mandatory,” the judge wrote.
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