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Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian called Georgia’s new voting law “unacceptable” in a memo to employees on Wednesday.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced on Tuesday it is suing Georgia over its election integrity measure, which Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed into law last week.

Actress Sophia Bush has attacked Republican efforts to pass laws on the state level combating voter fraud, accusing GOP politicians of “trying to kill democracy.” She also said voter integrity laws in states including Georgia represent the new “Jim Crow.”

Filmmaker, power producer, and Georgia resident Tyler Perry said he hopes the Department of Justice under President Joe Biden will investigate Georgia’s new voter integrity law, which puts in place voter identification requirements and other measures to combat voter fraud.

Appearing Monday on the Fox News Channel, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) blasted calls from left-wing activists to boycott the Peach State over its recent enactment of legislation aimed at strengthening election integrity.  

President Joe Biden advanced a false narrative about Georgia’s new election integrity law, claiming that it reduces voting hours, thereby compromising the ability of working-class Americans to go out and vote. This is a clear falsehood, as the law does not change Election Day hours and actually expands access for early voting, as the establishment media outlet, the Washington Post, pointed out in a fact-check, giving the commander-in-chief Four Pinocchios.

Hollywood filmmaker James Mangold has stated that he will not direct a movie in Georgia, indirectly citing the state’s recent voter integrity law that seeks to curb voter fraud by instituting identification requirements and other measures.

Georgia’s newest election law “cures a lot of the problems” seen in the 2020 election, said Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA).

Monday, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) reacted to the criticism over the stronger election law in Georgia. The law, which was signed by Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA), includes voter ID laws for absentee voters and limits ballot drop boxes, among other more restrictive measures to shore up election integrity.

Gov. Brian Kemp (R) railed against Democrat activist Stacey Abrams for her response to the Georgia legislature’s recent passage of the Election Integrity Act, telling host Matthew Boyle on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday that Abrams was spreading untruths in order “to pad her bank account.”

Cher is the latest Hollywood celebrity to explode over Georgia’s new voter integrity law, claiming inaccurately that the law takes away voting rights of black Americans. She also lashed out at Republican lawmakers, calling them “evil” and “bigots.”

Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) said states are attempting to “suppress the vote” by pursuing basic election integrity measures, using the actions of Republican state legislatures as an opportunity to, once again, pitch the left’s “For the People Act,” which would nationalize U.S. elections.

President Joe Biden’s attacks on Georgia’s election integrity law, which Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed into law last week, are “not supported by facts,” Heritage Action executive director Jessica Anderson told Breitbart News in an exclusive statement.

CNN anchor Dana Bash pointed out on Sunday’s broadcast on “State of the Union,” Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed the new voting law “in a roomful of white men.”

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to Georgia’s election law by saying that the law is “political theater” and that people “vote when they want to vote, regardless of the law.” Brooks criticized the law, saying, “There

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) defended the state’s election reform law in a pointed statement on Friday, accusing Democrats and their counterparts in the establishment media of repeating “partisan talking points” by proclaiming the measure restricts access to voting, deeming the narratives “lazy, biased, and political as they are demonstrably wrong.”

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Rep. and Georgia Democratic Party Chairwoman Nikema Williams (D-GA) stated that the 2018 Georgia governor’s race was “stolen” from Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams. Williams discussed the arrest of Georgia State Rep. Park Cannon (D)

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said that no one thinks Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) “did not steal the election fair and square from Stacey Abrams.” Clyburn said, “Nobody believes that he

Hollywood celebrities are expressing their rage over Georgia’s sweeping new voter integrity law, which implements voter identification requirements and limits ballot drop boxes. Left-wing stars — the vast majority of whom don’t live in Georgia — are condemning the law as racist, “straight up” evil, and a form of “voter suppression.”

Biden described the new law as “outrageous,” a “blatant attack on the Constitution,” and claimed it was racially motivated.

Friday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” State Rep. Donna McLeod (D-GA) sounded off on the passage of Senate Bill 202 by Georgia’s General Assembly and then signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA).

Democratic Georgia State Rep. Park Cannon approached Kemp’s office door and beat on it repeatedly during the signing ceremony of the bill.

Left-wing groups have lodged a complaint against the election integrity measure Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed into law Thursday, deeming it a “Voter Suppression Bill.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tapped into the rhetoric used by her colleagues, and President Biden himself, and accused GOP lawmakers of taking Georgia “back to Jim Crow” by pursuing election integrity measures.

The executive director of Heritage Action praised the new Georgia “Election Integrity Act of 2021,” signed into law by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday evening, as a model for other states to follow.

Thursday on FNC’s “Your World,” Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) refused to comment on how Senate Bill 202, passed by Georgia’s General Assembly and signed into law, would have impacted the 2020 presidential election in the Peach State if it had been enacted at the time.

Martin Luther King III, the son of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., said on CNN Thursday that the Georgia Republican’s newly-passed election law was absolutely “racist.”

Georgia State Patrol officers detained a Democrat member of the Georgia House of Representatives on Thursday after she interrupted the signing of an election integrity bill by Gov. Brian Kemp (R).

On Thursday, former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele on MSNBC’s “The Beat” predicted there would be consequences for Republican lawmakers and Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) for passing sweeping changes to Georgia’s election laws.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) has signed an elections bill which would strengthen voting rules in the Peach State by limiting the number of ballot drop boxes and establishing photo ID requirements for absentee voters, among other things.

Georgia Tech professor Gee-Kung Chang faces accusations of abusing the J-1 Visa program to bring Chinese nationals into the U.S.

Authorities rushed to aid Alabama residents Thursday, as “violent,” long-track tornadoes savage the state.

Heritage Action corrected the record on Wednesday after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) demonized Georgia state GOP lawmakers for pushing election integrity measures, falsely claiming that they are targeting black Americans by “outlaw voting” on Sundays.

LA AG Jeff Landry is leadibg a 13-state coalition in a lawsuit against the Biden administration for its attack on domestic energy production.

According to an OnMessage Inc. poll, former Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) leads the Republican Senate primary in a hypothetical match-up.

Legislation to prohibit private funding of election administration and limit the number and location of drop boxes for the deposit of vote by mail absentee ballots is moving through key committees in Georgia.