CNBC: “Two national Republican Party organizations rushed to Georgia’s defense in a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice, which alleges that a recently passed election law violates voting protections for minorities. The Republican National Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee said in a press release Thursday that they were intervening to defend Georgia against the ‘politically-motivated lawsuit.’ President Joe Biden and other Democrats are ‘weaponizing the Justice Department by trying to strong-arm the state of Georgia into making its elections less secure,’ RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement in the release.”
“Republicans argue that SB 202, the election overhaul bill signed in March by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, enshrines common-sense voter protections into law. But Attorney General Merrick Garland, who announced the lawsuit in June, accused the Peach State of enacting the law ‘with the purpose of denying or abridging the right of Black Georgians to vote on account of their race or color.'”