Georgia’s highest court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Democratic U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, Democratic State Rep. Park Cannon and several others who were arrested while protesting at the Georgia Capitol.
Williams, who was a state senator at the time, was among 15 people arrested in November 2018 while calling for uncounted ballots to be tallied. Unofficial election results at the time showed Republican Brian Kemp with a slim lead over Democrat Stacey Abrams in the race for governor, but Abrams maintained that enough uncounted absentee, mail-in and provisional ballots remained to force a runoff. Kemp was ultimately declared the winner and became governor.
Separately, Cannon was arrested March 25, 2021, after knocking on the door of the governor’s office as he made livestreamed comments in support of a sweeping new election law he’d just signed.
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