By Jill Nolin | Editor
There will be three statewide constitutional amendments on the ballot this November, and a bipartisan group of state and local leaders has come out in support of one of them: making all county probate judges nonpartisan. That group, which includes the likes of former Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes and ex-GOP Gov. Nathan Deal, signed onto a letter backing the change. But not everyone is a fan.
Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Nels Peterson gives a speech in the state House in February. Peterson expressed support for making probate court judge races nonpartisan. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder
2026 ELECTION
By Ross Williams
Do you want to know what political party the judge who validates your last will and testament belongs to?
A measure up for a vote on the November ballot would require all Georgia probate judges, who oversee matters like wills, estates and conservatorships, to be elected in nonpartisan elections, and a bipartisan group of more than 60 Georgia leaders are rooting it on.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand speaks at the 2019 California Democratic Party Convention in San Francisco. Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, chairs the party's Senate campaign committee (Photo by Gage Skidmore)
2026 ELECTION
By Jennifer Shutt, DC Bureau
U.S. Senate Democrats believe they could pick up as many as six seats following this November’s midterm elections, despite Republicans having better fundraising numbers and break-even polling in several states.
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chair Kirsten Gillibrand said during a sit-down interview Tuesday that the president’s low approval ratings and the ongoing war in Iran remind her of the 2006 election cycle, when the party flipped both chambers of Congress.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington is surrounded by the press as he leaves the courthouse earlier this month following the conclusion of deliberations for the sixth day in the trial of Lindsay Clancy in Plymouth, Massachusetts. (Photo by CJ Gunther/Getty Images)
HEALTHCARE
By Sofia Resnick, Stateline
The mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial earlier this month places her future in doubt, three years after she killed her three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
But one potential outcome is a state legislative push to boost mental health support for new mothers.
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York City on Sept. 22, 2026. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
IRAN WAR
By Ashley Murray, DC Bureau
President Donald Trump faces a “big decision” to make a deal with Iran or “annihilate” the country, he told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
During a 37-minute speech to his international counterparts including Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in New York City, Trump asked, “Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before?
“Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly … Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?” he said.
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