By Ross Williams | Deputy Editor
You know something weird is going on when Georgia lawmakers are working over the summer.
Normally, the legislature only meets in the first quarter of the year, but in less than two weeks, the state House and Senate will be heading into a special legislative session just in time for swimsuit season.
Originally, the session was only supposed to deal with redrawing district lines following a U.S. Supreme Court decision dismantling Voting Rights Act regulations and to deal with the time lawmakers accidentally made Georgia’s election system illegal.
But Gov. Brian Kemp gave lawmakers more work Wednesday with an amended proclamation adding three new tasks: to ratify the gas tax suspension that ended Wednesday, to consider and confirm new appointments to boards and to consider legislation that could allow certain local property tax referendums to be added to the November ballot.
Reporter Alander Rocha has the details.
Kemp issued an amended proclamation Wednesday adding three new tasks for the legislature to consider in a special legislative session starting on June 17. Alander Rocha/Georgia Recorder
GOVERNMENT
By Alander Rocha
A June special session aimed at redrawing the state’s political map and addressing election ballot QR codes just got busier.
Gov. Brian Kemp issued an amended proclamation Wednesday adding three new tasks for the Legislature to consider when they gavel in for a special legislative session on June 17.
Pictured clockwise from the top left: Presiding Justice Sarah Warren, former state Sen. Jen Jordan, attorney Miracle Rankin and Justice Charlie Bethel. File photos.
ELECTIONS
By Maya Homan
Georgia Democrats had high hopes of tipping the balance on the state’s highest court in February, when two candidates announced they would be challenging a pair of sitting justices during the state’s nonpartisan elections in May.
But despite $8 million in spending from the Democratic Party of Georgia to unseat the two state Supreme Court justices and record early voter turnout in which Democratic voters surpassed Republicans, both incumbent justices managed to hold onto their seats.
President Donald Trump salutes as a U.S. Army carry team moves a flag-draped transfer case containing the remains of Sgt. Declan J. Coady at Dover Air Force Base on March 7, 2026 in Delaware. (Photo by Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)
CONGRESS
By Ariana Figueroa
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed a resolution Wednesday to force President Donald Trump to withdraw from the war with Iran and require congressional approval for further military action in the country.
The 215-208 vote, in which four Republicans voted with all Democrats to adopt the resolution, is the strongest rebuke to date against Trump’s handling of the months-long war that has left more than a dozen military troops dead, killed thousands of Iranian civilians and disrupted global supply chains of fertilizer and oil with the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz.
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