A group of Georgia district attorneys are filing a lawsuit challenging a recently enacted law empowering the state to remove elected prosecutors for their discretionary decisions, they announced Wednesday.
The legislation, signed into law on May 5 by Gov. Brian Kemp (R), creates an eight-member Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission, which can remove a prosecutor who makes a charging decision based on “a stated policy,” that the district attorney “categorically refuses to prosecute” an offense that the law requires them to prosecute.
The law restricts the prosecutors’ freedom of speech in violation of the state and federal constitutions, and the separation ...
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