Ga. PSC Elections Back On
Georgia Public Service Commission elections may proceed, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision Friday. The appeals court stayed a lower court’s decision stopping this year's PSC elections, saying electing PSC members on a statewide,…
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at-large basis violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act (see 2208050030). “The district court’s permanent injunction, issued about three months before the scheduled election, appears to run counter to the Supreme Court’s teaching” in 2020’s Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee case, said the 11th Circuit majority including judges Adalberto Jordan and Robert Luck. The Supreme Court there said lower federal courts shouldn’t alter election rules shortly before an election. Judge Robin Rosenbaum dissented. “If everyone in the United States got to vote on who Georgia’s U.S. Senators would be, I don’t think anyone would think that the system was fair to Georgians,” she wrote. “But Georgia has that type of system for choosing who regulates public utilities.”