Category: Georgia

Georgia’s Abortion Ban Takes Effect After Appeals Court Ruling

Georgia’s abortion ban took effect on July 20, immediately after a federal appeals court overturned a lower court order that had blocked enforcement of the 2019 law. The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit issued a stay on a lower court injunction that was issued in 2020, after ruling that the…


Former Gubernatorial Candidate and Critic of Georgia Guidestones Swatted

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Kandiss Taylor recalls a horrifying night when her home in Baxley was surrounded by law enforcement responding to a call claiming that she had shot her husband five times and was preparing to shoot herself. It was late on Monday night, June 11, Taylor told The Epoch Times, when her son…


Georgia District Allow Some Non-Police Officers to Carry Guns on Campus

A large school district in Georgia will allow some employees who are not certified police officers to carry guns on campus, but the policy does not include teachers and staff whose primary responsibility is supervising classrooms. During a school board meeting on Thursday, members of the Cobb County Board of Education voted 4–2 to approve…


Abrams Rakes In Out-Of-State Cash Ahead of Big Fight For Georgia Governor’s Job

With the primaries behind them, Stacey Abrams and incumbent Brian Kemp can now focus on each other as their grudge rematch for Georgia governor intensifies. They’ve got plenty of money to do it with, particularly Abrams. In less than two months after the May primary, her One Georgia campaign group raised more than $18 million….


Judge Orders Sen. Graham to Testify to Georgia Grand Jury in Election Probe

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) must testify to a grand jury in Georgia investigating possible election-related crimes, a Georgia judge ruled on July 11. Graham “is a necessary and material witness to the Special Purpose Grand Jury investigation,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney said in his ruling. Graham made at least two phone calls to…


Authorities Reveal Result of Search for Georgia Guidestones Time Capsule

ELBERTON, Ga.—After the destruction of the Georgia Guidestones early Wednesday, authorities eagerly searched for a time capsule buried nearby—but they found nothing. According to police Lieutenant Shane Allen, the local government dug beneath a plaque by the monument that promised a time capsule six feet beneath it. “There was no hole. There was no nothing….


Video Shows Suspect Leaving Explosive Device at Georgia Guidestones, GBI Says

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) on Thursday released surveillance footage that shows someone running to and from a rural monument that was damaged on Wednesday in an apparent act of vandalism. In a series of videos and pictures the agency shared on Twitter, a suspicious figure is seen running toward the Georgia Guidestones, a monument near…


Bemused Locals Having Mixed Reactions to Destruction of Georgia Guidestone Monument

ELBERTON, Ga.—The Georgia Guidestone monument has left locals as confused by its destruction as by its creation. In 1980, a mysterious man using the pseudonym of Robert C. Christian built the monument out of local granite. Into it, he had carved a series of laws meant to guide humanity after a nuclear war. Early on July…


Bemused Locals Have Mixed Reaction to Destruction of Georgia Guidestone Monument

ELBERTON, Ga.—The Georgia Guidestone monument has left locals as confused by its destruction as by its creation. In 1980, a mysterious man using the pseudonym of Robert C. Christian built the monument out of local granite. Into it, he had carved a series of laws meant to guide humanity after a nuclear war. Early on July…


Bemused Locals Have Mixed Reaction to Destruction of Georgia Guidestones Monument

ELBERTON, Ga.—The Georgia Guidestones monument has left locals as confused by its destruction as by its creation. In 1980, a mysterious man using the pseudonym of Robert C. Christian built the monument out of local granite. Into it, he had carved a series of laws meant to guide humanity after a nuclear war. Early on July…