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Former Heisman Trophy winner and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Herschel Walker speaks to supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump during a rally at the Banks County Dragway on March 26, 2022, in Commerce, Georgia. (Megan Varner/Getty Images/TNS)

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Abortion rights activists protest in Atlanta on Thursday, July 21, 2022. The previous day a federal appeals court allowed Georgia’s restrictive “heartbeat” abortion law to take effect. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

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Judge could soon decide temporary fate of new Georgia abortion law

Federal judicial nominee Steven Grimberg at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 30. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Senate Office of Photography.

Georgia appeals ruling that PSC elections discriminate against Black voters

A student walks past a Georgia Milestones Assessment bulletin board at Thurgood Marshall Elementary on Wednesday, April 19, 2022. Teachers and faculty created the bulletin boards about a month before Milestones testing as a way to motivate and encourage students. (Natrice Miller / natrice.miller@ajc.com)

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Organizers canceled Music Midtown this year. Multiple officials familiar with the cancellation cited potential legal problems tied to a 2014 state gun law as the cause, setting off a debate about firearms.

Capitol Recap: Music Midtown cancels and a debate begins on Georgia gun law

The renovation of MARTA's Five Points station is one of 18 projects that a regional transit board may recommend for state funding next year. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Metro Atlanta transit board to recommend projects for state funding

Kindergarten teacher Rebecca Coleman greets her new students on Tuesday, the first day of school at Clark Creek Elementary School in Acworth. COVID-19 helped set the pension fund for the state's educators on an unusually wild ride, as the fund jumped about 60% in the stock runup after the economy reopened following the short pandemic shutdown, only to take a substantial dip in fiscal 2022. (Rebecca Wright for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Georgia teacher pension fund dropped $15 billion in rough year for stocks

Early voters walk into Cherokee County Elections Office on Monday, May 16, 2022. (Natrice Miller / natrice.miller@ajc.com)

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Libertarian appeal to swing voters could force Georgia elections to runoffs

Alexander Azarian, the interim director for the Georgia Senate Research Office, has been charged with two felony counts of child pornography. Courtesy photo.

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Head of Georgia Senate Research Office faces child porn charges

Gov. Brian Kemp is expected to announce Wednesday that he will suspend the state's gas tax of 29.1 cents per gallon through mid-September. (Natrice Miller/natrice.miller@ajc.com)

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As prices fall, Kemp is set to extend gas tax break until mid-September

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Georgia appeals ruling that PSC elections discriminate against Black voters

A group of protestors gathers outside the Atlanta mayor's office pushing for the closure of the Atlanta city jail on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. (Photo by J.D. Capelouto)

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Inside City Hall: Old public safety debates revived over jails, nightlife

Fulton County residents use electronic voting machines to cast their ballots on the floor of State Farm Arena during early voting in Georgia in October 2020. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)

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Georgia election security chief splits time with second state job

Capitol Recap: Music Midtown cancels and a debate begins on Georgia gun law

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Libertarian appeal to swing voters could force Georgia elections to runoffs

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As prices fall, Kemp is set to extend gas tax break until mid-September

Republican supporters clap as they hear the voice of President Donald Trump during a Republican rally in the parking lot at the Georgia Republican Party headquarters in Atlanta’s Buckhead community, Thursday, November 5, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)

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Republicans back fake elector for state Senate

A complaint filed with the state ethics commission alleges that the New Georgia Project, a voter registration group that Democrat Stacey Abrams founded, and an affiliated organization, the New Georgia Project Action Fund, raised $4 million and spent $3 million before the 2018 election between Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp. The groups should have registered as independent political committees and publicly disclosed the money, the complaint says. (AJC Photo/Stephen B. Morton).

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Georgia ethics panel says groups should have disclosed spending on Abrams

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President Joe Biden speaks from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, in Washington, as he announces that a U.S. airstrike killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghanistan. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP)

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Opinion: Biden gets election year wins, but faces party doubts

FILE - A pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico to Yuma, Ariz., to seek asylum on June 10, 2021. The National Association of Immigration Judges on Thursday, July 21, 2022, asked the federal government to restore its recognition after the Trump administration stripped its official status, and the system's chief judge resigned after two years on the job. The two developments underscore political uncertainty at a critical time in the Justice Department's Executive Office for Immigration Review, which runs the courts. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File)

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Opinion: GOP frustration grows over immigration surge

U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson of Lithonia was among Democrats who pressed for a U.S. House vote that would put Republicans on the record on a measure to provide legal protection to same-sex and interracial marriages. “It’s time to enshrine marriage equality into federal law,” Johnson said (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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Opinion: After abortion defeat, Democrats in Congress try to play offense

The statue of Confederate Vice President Alexander Hamilton Stephens sits in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall. It is one of two statues placed in the Capitol by the state of Georgia.

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The fans enjoy the music of Black Pumas at Music Midtown on Sunday night, September 19, 2021, in Piedmont Park. (Photo: Ryan Fleisher for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Gabriel Sterling, a top aide to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, has been one of most vocal defenders of the office's integrity. In the seventh episode of the AJC's "Breakdown" podcast, Raffensperger and Sterling sit down for an interview about the 2020 presidential election and its aftermath. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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‘Breakdown’ Episode 7: Planting the seeds of truth

How do you indict a president? It's never happened before. The sixth episode of the AJC's Breakdown podcast looks back at past criminal cases involving presidents and vice presidents, including Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal. Can these cases tell us anything about what's ahead for the Fulton special purpose grand jury investigation of former President Donald Trump? (AP file)

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‘Breakdown’ Episode 6: One for the History Books

FILE - People march through Downtown Atlanta on June 24, 2022, to protest the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. A federal appeals court on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, overturned a lower court ruling and said Georgia’s restrictive 2019 abortion law should be allowed to take effect. The Georgia law bans most abortions once a “detectable human heartbeat” is present. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)

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