by JMO Staff | Feb 28, 2025 | Floating Boats
Following this week’s surprise announcement that Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael P. Boggs would be stepping down at the end of March, the remaining justices unanimously selected Presiding Justice Nels Peterson as the court’s next leader. ...
by JMO Staff | Feb 27, 2025 | Floating Boats
Among the Trump Administration’s spending cuts was a federal scholarship program that gives out scholarships to agricultural students at historically Black colleges and universities, including Fort Valley State University here in Georgia. But after pushback...
by JMO Staff | Feb 26, 2025 | Floating Boats
The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center hasn’t been in the headlines recently as much as it was in recent years when violent protesters rioted and vandalized cars and buildings to try to stop it, but a legal battle has been going on behind the scenes. However...
by JMO Staff | Feb 25, 2025 | Floating Boats
A legislative priority for House Speaker Jon Burns, R-Newington, is protecting Georgians’ rights to pursue in vitro fertilization (IVF). On Monday that effort cleared an important benchmark when House Bill 428 passed out of the House Health Committee. The bill...
by JMO Staff | Feb 24, 2025 | Floating Boats
The most high-profile piece of legislation under the Gold Dome this year is Senate Bill 68, the tort reform bill pushed by Gov. Brian Kemp and his allies in the legislature. On Friday it cleared its first major hurdle, passing the Senate by a 33-21 margin mostly...
by JMO Staff | Feb 21, 2025 | Floating Boats
The Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission has had a busy year already investigating allegations of judicial misconduct, and in Fulton Superior Court Judge Shermela Williams may have found its most scandalous case yet. The JQC has brought more than a dozen...
