The question facing U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones is whether 100,000 Georgians who were removed from voting rolls earlier this week should be put back.
But Thursday afternoon in his downtown Atlanta courtroom, he appeared to be also wrestling with another question: whether that decision should be his.
It’s a case that centers on state law. But as lawyers for Fair Fight Action see it, it also involves an individual’s right to vote, as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
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