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Day eighty-six of posting every six queen
DAY EIGHTY-SIX - GEORGIA CARR - KATHERINE HOWARD
#six the musical#six#six queens#beheaded#katherine howard#six breakaway#six breakaway 1.0#georgia carr
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David and Georgia and friends at the 2024 Television BAFTAs
...and looking glamourous
David was nominated for Best Performance in a Comedy for Good Omens
With thanks to Georgia Tennant, Russell T. Davies, Lenny Rush, Jo Church, and Mawaan Rizwan for some of these photos
#david tennant#georgia tennant#I'm still celebrating the fact that he finally got a BAFTA nomination#it's about time#bafta 2024#tv baftas#bafta tv awards 2024#michelle visage#lenny rush#liz carr#stephen mangan#russell t davies#rtd#russell tovey#mawaan rizwan#jeff goldblum#I hope I got everybody#what a night#stuff i posted#bafta#(I still love you Welsh and Scottish BAFTAs that he already has)
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Matt Shuham at HuffPost:
A 3-2 Republican majority on Georgia’s State Election Board voted Friday to require local election offices to hand count the state’s millions of ballots, inviting chaos as experts warned the task would prove impossible in the state’s largest counties, which lean Democratic. The rule was just the latest in a string of partisan votes from the board, members of which Donald Trump praised by name at a rally in Georgia last month. A few weeks ago, the board empowered county election officials — many of whom have challenged election results in the past — to personally investigate election results and demand reams of election-related documentation, potentially delaying the certification of the state’s results. The board was made more partisan as part of a Trumpian election overhaul bill passed in 2021 after Trump lost the state in the 2020 presidential election.
Friday’s rule requires a hand count of all ballots by individual poll managers and two “sworn poll officers.” If there are any inconsistencies, including between the hand counts and ballot tabulators, they must be resolved. The rule will disproportionately affect Georgia’s largest counties, which lean blue and were key to President Joe Biden’s narrow win in the state in 2020. Nearly 5 million people voted in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. The state’s Republican attorney general’s office advised the board that the change — one of several rules under consideration Friday — was likely unlawful, and it will likely face a challenge in court. The previous rule changes regarding the certification of election results and access to election documentation are currently facing a suit from Georgia Democrats. “These proposed rules are not tethered to any statute — and are, therefore, likely the precise type of impermissible legislation that agencies cannot do,” a senior attorney in Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr’s office wrote.
The new rule increases the likelihood that the certification of election results will be delayed in Georgia. And if the state happens to end up determining the winner of the 2024 election — which isn’t unlikely — such a delay could lay the groundwork for a broader effort to determine the presidency through a legal or political fight, or a 2020-style election subversion campaign. There are already measures in place in Georgia and elsewhere to certify that the correct number of ballots have been tallied in a given precinct — just as there are already avenues for candidates who suspect election fraud to challenge results in court. Critics say giving additional responsibilities to local election officials just six weeks before Election Day is a recipe for disrupting the election and sowing doubts about the results.
Studies (and real-world examples) have consistently found that hand counts of ballots are significantly less accurate than machine counts, but Republicans in several states have campaigned to ban machines or add hand-counting requirements in the wake of Trump and his allies’ lies that the machines were used to rig the 2020 election. The rule passed Friday in Georgia states that “the process must be completed within the designated county certification period,” which occurs a week after Election Day. Speakers in opposition to Friday’s rule warned that it would be used to challenge the legitimacy of election results.
[...] Georgia was one of several states whose 2020 results Republicans challenged in an effort to overturn the election outcome and reverse Biden’s win; Trump faces several felony counts in Georgia and federally for his efforts to overturn those results, as do several Republicans in Georgia.
The Republican majority on the Georgia State Election Board voted 3-2 in favor of causing chaos by requiring time-consuming hand-counting of all ballots that will cause a delay in certification of the results.
Chris Carr (R), the state’s AG, has advised that their changes are likely to be unlawful.
See Also:
The Guardian: Trump-aligned Georgia election board votes 3-2 to require hand-count on election day
#Georgia#Election Administration#Election Denialism#2024 Georgia Elections#2024 Elections#2024 Presidential Election#Chris Carr#Georgia State Election Board#Election Boards#Election Theft
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Heat of the Moment
by Georgia le Carre
Oh Billionaire romance novels, how I love thee. They're a very specific type of popcorn for the brain, aren't they? This one is about average length, with the added bonus of the boyfriend-stealing-sister, evil stepmother, sweet revenge, and a bit of a secret identity situation going on. A fun, quick read! Nice to see a bit of self-realization too on the part of the main characters,
Overall 3 fat cats out of 5.
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Całe życie czułam jakąś niewyjaśnioną pustkę, jakby czegoś mi było brak. Nie miało to dla mnie wielkiego znaczenia, ale to także uległo zmianie. Teraz wiedziałam już, czego mi brakowało. Byłam tylko częścią większej całości. On stanowił moją drugą połówkę. Bez niego nie byłam kompletna.
Georgia Le Carre - “Najlepsza oferta”
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Predictably, GOP Senators & House Representatives Have Boxers In A Twist
Note: This does not mean a wedgie. Americans invariably go there. It means to be anxious, worried, upset, or bothered. Now, carry on. U. S. District Court Judge Steve Jones ruled on October 26, 2023 in a 516-page order that the State of Georgia’s redistricting map was in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1963 (again) and must be redrawn. This lawsuit had been filed by several groups because…
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CONTENT WARNING: police, violence
Some Stop Cop City TikToks caught my attention
and got me interested in learning more about Cop City. I thought I would share some of the information I found.
from Police Foundations. These are not necessarily corporations that donated to Cop City, but they are to show that donating to police is something corporations regularly do.
Cop City is another name for the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Funded with $90,000,000 in taxes and donations.
Largest police training facility in the United States.
Located in the densest black populated area in Georgia.
Cop City is being built in one of Atlanta’s last forests.
Stop Cop City protester and environmentalist activist Manuel Esteban Paez Terán was shot “12 or 13” times by a police officer despite Terán not firing at the police. The cop did not face charges because the killing was “objectively reasonable under the circumstances of this case”.
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr described Defend Atlanta Forest as “an anarchist, anti-police, and anti-business extremist organization” and 61 activists have been charged with domestic terrorism.
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) directly shares strategies with the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE). “The Atlanta Police Department and Fulton County SWAT teams had conducted training exercises in an abandoned hotel to remove “Hamas terrorists’.”
Corporations like Dunkin Donuts parent corporation Inspire Brands, Coca-Cola, Chic-Fil-A, Bank of America, UPS, Norfolk Southern, and more help fund Cop City with multimillion-dollar donations. Coca-Cola, UPS, Chic-Fil-A, and more made statements during the murder of George Floyd with things like “…end the cycle of systemic racism”, “creating social impact, advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion”, and “building stronger communities.” Corporations often donate to police foundations.
Articles sourced:
https://prismreports.org/2023/11/14/stop-cop-city-gilee-palestinian-genocide/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/morgansimon/2023/03/14/cops-and-donuts-go-together-more-than-you-thought-the-corporations-funding-cop-city-in-atlanta/
I’m not a professional or even a hobbyist journalist, so if I have wrong information here, please let me know.
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Carr Circuit SW, Covington, Georgia.
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Mike Davis has set up an email (or they will tweet it) for all Georgia citizens, ArticleIII will send to Kemp and Carr, to kick this Fani Willis case out and shut it down. You can send the email, and add your own request that goes directly to kemp and carr's offices. Link below
Tell Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr to Criminally Investigate Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis faces serious allegations that she illegally hired her secret boyfriend as her special prosecutor to bring an unprecedented, partisan felony case based upon an untested legal theory against President Trump.
Contact Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr. Tell them you stand with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s criminal referral, and tell them to order an immediate and formal criminal investigation into Fani Willis and her alleged boyfriend Nathan Wade pursuant to their authority under Georgia law.
Greene is not my rep though
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BREAKING: In what might be the worst case of police repression in recent US history, 61 mostly peaceful Cop City protestors are in a Georgia court today to face "racketeering" charges and 35-yr prison terms.
Shameful abuse of power by @Georgia_AG Carr.⤵️ https://wabe.org/arraignment-set-for-cop-city-protesters-charged-with-racketeering/
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Some cruise Queens that haven’t returned that I’d love to see again
Nicole Lamb (Bliss 4.0 Howard)
Hazel Karooma-Brooker (Bliss 1.0 Boleyn)
Georgia Carr (Breakaway 1.0 Howard)
Shelby Griswold (Breakaway 3.0 Seymour)
Candace Furbert (Bliss 1.0 Aragon)
#six the musical#six#six queens#six cruise#six bliss#six breakaway#nicole lamb#hazel karooma brooker#georgia carr#shelby griswold#candace furbert
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The end of an era: Six cruise productions have officially closed
13 productions (plus two cancelled ones), four and a half years and 103 queens later. A chaotic but iconic era in six history is over.
Candace Furbert, Hazel Karooma-Brooker, Caitlin Tipping, Sophie Golden, Alicia Corrales, Viquichele Cross, Natalie Pilkington, Bryony Duncan, Lori McLare, Jasmine Jia Yung Shen, Kelly Sweeney, Amy Bridges, Jessica Niles, Georgia Carr, Amelia Walker, Liv Alexander, Elizabeth Walker, Jade Marvin, Lucy Aiston, Gabriella Stylianou, Scarlet Gabriel, Rebecca Wickes, Megan Leung, Abbi Hodgson, Sophie-Rose Middleton, Artemis Chrisoulakis, Ellie Sharpe, Melinda Porto, L'Oréal Roaché, Wesley Carpenter, Maya Christian, Brianna Brito Mooney, Meghan Dawson, Marilyn Caserta, Ashlee Waldbauer, Lauren Irving, Danielle Mendoza, Shelby Griswold, Kennedy Monica Carstens, Abigail Sparrow, Jarynn Whitney, Madeline Fansler, Channing Weir, Gabbi Mack, Casey Esbin, Ellie Wyman, Sasha Renae Brown, Nicole Lamb, Aja Simone Baitey, Willow Dougherty, Kayla McSorley, Jessie Bodner, Jasmine Hackett, Janice Rijssel, Lucia Valentino, Elena Breschi, Princess Sasha Victomé, Rae Davenport, Gianna Grosso, Kathryn Kilger, Reca Oakley, Jillian Worthing, Bethany McDonald, Sunayna Smith, Hannah Taylor, Sarah McFarlane, Eden Holmes, Fiorella Bamba, Lucinda Wilson, Haley Izurieta, Caitlyn De Kuyper, Amanda Simone Lee, Gabriella Boumford, Meghan Corbett, Analise Rios, Ruby Gibbs, Cydney Clark, Caroline Siegrist, Eloise Lord, Deirdre Duncan, Audrey Fisher, Lorren Santo-Quinn, Billie Kerr Amelia Atherton, Giulia Marolda, Izzy Formby-Jackson, Laura Blair, Maddison Firth, Emily Harrigan, Kara-Ami McCreanor, Sadie Hurst, Adrianna Glover, Alizé Ke'Aloha Cruz, Kristina Walz, Chelsea Lorraine Wargo, Emily Rose Lyons, Meg Dixon-Brasil, Lois Ellise, Jasmine Smith, Jaelle Laguerre, Kate Zulauf, Brooke Aneece, Hannah Lawton
Plus Gabrielle Davina Smith, Melissa Ford, Kaylah Attard, Fia Houston- Hamilton, Rhiannon Bacchus and Rhiannon Doyle who were set to join Breakaway before lockdown.
#six the musical#six cruises#six bliss#six breakaway#six alternates#did I use a ton of land production photos?#yes I did#and so many points to people who go on cruises and then take high quality six photos#true heroes#for the record this was supposed to post last friday#and tumblr dissapeared it
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A fond farewell to the lovely Breakaway 6.0 queens and to the Breakaway cruise production! To those we met onboard, those who went on to perform on land, and those who we never got to see perform at all, a heartfelt thank you from the queendom as a whole! ‘Til we meet again!
Breakaway 1.0: Jasmine Shen, Kelly Sweeney, Amy Bridges, Jessica Niles, Georgia Carr, Amelia Walker, Liv Alexander, and Elizabeth Walker Breakaway 2.0: Jade Marvin, Liv Alexander, Elizabeth Walker, Jessica Niles, Artemis Chrisoulakis, Amelia Walker, Abbi Hodgson, and Ellie Sharpe Breakaway 3.0: Lauren Irving, Danielle Mendoza, Shelby Griswold, Kennedy Carstens, Abigail Sparrow, Jarynn Whitney, Madeline Fansler, and Channing Weir Breakaway 4.0: Jade Marvin, Jessie Bodner, Jasmine Hackett, Janice Rijssel, Lucia Valentino, Elena Breschi, Princess Sasha Victime, and Ellie Sharpe Breakaway 5.0: Gabbi Mack, Sunayna Smith, Hannah Taylor, Sasha Renae Brown, Sarah McFarlane, Megan Leung, Abbi Hodgson, and Eden Holmes Breakaway 6.0: Meghan Corbett, Analise Rios, Ruby Gibbs, Cydney Clark, Caroline Siegrist, Eloise Lord, Deirdre Dunkin, and Audrey Fisher Undebuted Breakaway Queens: Gabrielle Davina Smith, Melissa J. Ford, Kaylah Attard, Fia Houston-Hamilton, Maddison Firth, Rhiannon Bacchus, Laura Blair, Rhiannon Doyle, Sadie Hurst, Reca Oakley, Meg Dixon-Brasil, Jaelle Laguerre, Kate Zulauf, and Giulia Marolda
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As The Hill reports, allegations of wrongdoing surfaced when one of Trump’s co-defendants, Mike Roman, accused Willis and Nathan Wade — a married man whom she appointed to prosecute the RICO case against Donald Trump despite his having exactly zero experience in prosecuting such cases — of engaging in an “improper” romantic relationship.
Somehow, though, “improper romantic relationship” doesn’t begin to do it justice. For example, Willis paid Wade nearly $654,000 in legal fees in 2022 and 2023, and she benefited from the relationship in the form of lavish vacations they took together on the taxpayer dime. Willis also said she paid Wade and the two other special prosecutors she appointed “the same hourly rate.” Turns out that was a lie. In fact, Willis paid one of the state’s top racketeering experts, John Floyd, $150 an hour, but she paid the inexperienced Wade $250 an hour.
Caught red-handed, Willis eventually went public to defend herself, but not at a press conference where she might be questioned by the media. Instead, she went to church on Sunday — specifically, Atlanta’s historic black Big Bethel AME Church — where she gave the congregants a 35-minute woe-is-me sermon. It wasn’t a good look.
The New York Post editorial board agrees. “So where’s the Willis investigation?” it asks. “Last spring, Gov. Brian Kemp signed a new law establishing an eight-member commission to investigate and remove district attorneys for sufficient cause. Willis’ blatant breaches of ethics plainly require the new State Prosecuting Attorneys Statewide Qualifications Commission to act ASAP.”
All this makes one wonder not only whether Willis will be forced to step down but also whether Georgia’s attorney general, Christopher Carr, has the guts to pursue criminal charges against her.
Finally, a word of advice for the people of Fulton County: This is what you get when your DA is a clown. Do better.
#fani willis#fulton county#What a joke#trump#ivanka#trump 2024#president trump#americans first#repost#america first#america#donald trump#democrats#this is important
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Holidays 12.13
Holidays
Acadian Remembrance Day (Canada)
Anesthesia Technicians Day (Turkey)
Bicycle Built For Two Day
Blame Someone Else Day
Clip-On Tie Day
Count the "La's" in "Deck the Halls" Day
Ella Josephine Baker Day
General Trias Foundation Day (Philippines)
International ACAB Day
Jane Addams Day
Jum ir-Repubblika (Malta)
Local Charities Day (UK)
Loki Day
Martial Law Victims Remembrance Day (Poland)
Nanking Massacre Memorial Day (China)
National Bring Your Brother-in-Law to Work Day
National Day (Saint Lucia)
National Day of the Horse [also 2nd Saturday]
National Guard Day (US)
National Violin Day
National Give a Wine Club Day
New Calendar Day
Nusantara Day (Indonesia)
Peace Day (Korea)
Pick a Pathologist Pal Day
Reed Plant Day (French Republic)
Republic Day (Malta)
Sailor’s Day (Brazil)
Santa Lucia Day (Sweden, Scandinavia)
Skip Day
Swiftie Day
Unreturned Library Book Day
World Violins Day
Yuletide Lad #2 arrives (Giljagaur or Gully Gawk; Iceland)
Food & Drink Celebrations
Ice Cream and Violins Day
National Cocoa Day
National Cream Cheese Frosting Day
National Ice Cream Day
National Popcorn String Day
Saffron Bun Day (Sweden)
World Raclette Day
Independence & Related Days
Malta (Republic Declared; 1974)
Vendsyssel (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]
2nd Friday in December
Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]
Five For Friday [Every Friday]
Flashback Friday [Every Friday]
Friday Finds [Every Friday]
Friday the Firkenteenth (Grey Lodge, Pennsylvania)
Fry Day (Pastafarian; Fritism) [Every Friday]
National Salesperson Day [2nd Friday]
Official Lost and Found Day [2nd Friday]
Purple Friday (Netherlands) [2nd Friday]
TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]
World Brandy Day [2nd Friday]
Weekly Holidays beginning December 13 (2nd Full Week of December)
None Known
Festivals Beginning December 13, 2024
Candy Cane Hunt (Lenexa, Kansas)
Christmas on the River (Savannah, Georgia) [thru 12.14]
Country Christmas Festival (Tylertown, Mississippi) [thru 12.14]
4th Avenue Winter Street Fair (Tucson, Arizona) [thru 12.15]
International Film Festival of Kerala (Thiruvananthapuram, India) [thru 12.20]
Night of the Proms (Hamburg, Germany) [thru 12.14]
Saint Kitts and Nevis National Carnival [Sugar Mas] (Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis) [thru 2.2.2025]
Woodstock Winter Wassail Weekend (Woodstock, Vermont) [thru 12.15]
Feast Days
Antiochus of Sulcis (Christian; Saint)
Antoni Tàpies (Artology)
Aubert of Cambrai (Christian; Saint)
Comp-U-Coffee 2000 (Muppetism)
Emily Carr (Artology)
Emma Bull (Writerism)
Euler (Positivist; Saint)
Eustratius and His Companions (Christian; Martyrs)
Feast of the Light-Bringer (Old Swedish Goddess of Light)
Franz von Lenbach (Artology)
Heinrich Heine (Writerism)
Herman of Alaska (American Orthodox Church)
Ides of December (Ancient Rome)
James Wright (Writerism)
John Marinoni (Christian; Blessed)
John Wayne Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Judoc (a.k.a. Joyce; Christian; Saint)
Kenelm, King (Christian; Saint)
Kenneth Patchen (Writerism)
Larry Storch Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Leonard Weisgard (Artology)
Losoong (a.k.a. Namsoong; Sikkim, India)
Luciadagen (a.k.a. Little Yule; Scandinavia)
Lucia’s Day (Pagan) [Sweden]
Lucy (Christian; Saint) [Writers]
Monkey Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)
Odile of Alsace (Christian; Saint)
Othilia (a.k.a. Odilia; Christian; Saint & Virgin)
The Sementivaem (Ancient Rome)
Tellus (Ancient Rome, with table spread for Ceres)
Thorn Cutting Ceremony Day (Glastonbury, England; Celtic)
Unreturned Library Books Sale (Imps; Shamanism)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Prime Number Day: 347 [69 of 72]
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Unlucky Day (EU, US) [Friday the 13th] (2 of 2 for 2024)
Unlucky Day (Canada, Germany, Ireland, UK, US) [Friday the 13th]
Premieres
Accordion Joe (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1930)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot (Web Series; 2016)
Alice’s Brown Derby (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1926)
American Hustle (Film; 2013)
An American in Paris, by George Gershwin (Tone Poem; 1928)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Disney Film; 1971)
Beyoncé, by Beyoncé (Album; 2013)
Bugsy (Film; 1991)
Calling Dr. Woodpecker (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1963)
A Chorus Line (Film; 1985)
Clue (Film; 1985)
Dark Star, performed by the Grateful Dead (Song; 1967)
Driving Miss Daisy (Film; 1989)
Emily of New Moon, by L.M. Montgomery (Novel; 1923)
Fool Coverage (WB LT Cartoon; 1952)
Foxy Lady, recorded by Jimi Hendrix (Song; 1966)
The Getaway (Film; 1972)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Film; 2013) [Hobbit #3]
Jerry Maguire (Film; 1996)
The Jewel of the Nile (Film; 1985)
Jumanji: The Next Level (Film; 2019)
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (Animated Film; 2024)
Maid in Manhattan (Film; 2002)
Mars Attacks! (Film; 1996)
A Miser Brothers’ Christmas (Animated TV Special; 2008)
Monitored Noose or The Carbon Copy-Cats (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 6; 1959)
My Name is Nobody (Film; 1973)
Popeye Presents Eugene, the Jeep (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1940)
The Poseidon Adventure (Film; 1972)
Rakuen Tsuiho: Expelled from Paradise (Anime Film; 2014)
Richard III (Film; 1955)
Saving Mr. Banks (Film; 2013)
Scooby-Doo! Pirates ahoy! (WB Animated Film; 2005)
The Scorched Moose (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 5; 1959)
Sense and Sensibility (Film; 1996)
6 Underground (Film; 2019)
The Snow Man (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)
Star Trek: Nemesis (Film; 2002)
Summertime (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)
Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, by Gustav Mahler (Symphony; 1895)
Symphony of Psalms, by Igor Stravinsky (Choral Symphony; 1930)
’Tis the Season to Be Smurfy (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1987)
Tristessa, by Jack Kerouac (Novel; 1960)
Uncut Gems (Film; 2019)
Wild and Woody! (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1948)
Wind (Pixar Cartoon; 2019)
Ye Olde Toy Shop (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)
Today’s Name Days
Jodok, Lucia, Odilia (Austria)
Jasna, Lucija, Otilija, Svjetlana (Croatia)
Lucie (Czech Republic)
Lucia (Denmark)
Ele, Ere, Hele, Loviise, Lucia, Luise, Viise (Estonia)
Seija (Finland)
Jocelyn, Lucie (France)
Jodok, Johanna, Lucia, Ottilia (Germany)
Aris, Efstratios, Ioubenalios, Evstratios, Loukia, Lucy, Stratos (Greece)
Luca, Otilia (Hungary)
Antioco, Lucia (Italy)
Lūcija, Veldze (Latvia)
Eiviltė, Kastautas, Kastytis, Liucija, Otilija (Lithuania)
Lucia, Lydia (Norway)
Łucja, Lucja, Otylia, Włodzisława (Poland)
Dosoftei (Romania)
Lucia (Slovakia)
Lucía, Otilia (Spain)
Lucia (Sweden)
Louise, Lucia, Lukia (Ukraine)
Cinderella, Cindy, Cynth, Cynthia (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 348 of 2024; 18 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 5 of Week 50 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 20 of 28]
Chinese: Month 11 (Bing-Zi), Day 13 (Xin-Hai)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Hebrew: 12 Kislev 5785
Islamic: 11 Jumada II 1446
J Cal: 18 Black; Foursday [18 of 30]
Julian: 30 November 2024
Moon: 96%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 12 Bichat (13th Month) [Daniel Bernouilli / D'Alembert]
Runic Half Month: Jara (Year) [Day 7 of 15]
Season: Autumn or Fall (Day 82 of 90)
Week: 2nd Full Week of December
Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 22 of 30)
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Three years after a former Georgia district attorney was indicted on charges alleging she interfered with police investigating the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the case's slow progression through the court system has sputtered to a halt, one the presiding judge insists is temporary.
Jackie Johnson was the state's top prosecutor for coastal Glynn County in February 2020, when Arbery was chased by three white men in pickup trucks who had spotted him running in their neighborhood. The 25-year-old Black man died in the street after one of his pursuers shot him with a shotgun.
Johnson transferred the case to an outside prosecutor because the man who initiated the deadly chase, Greg McMichael, was her former employee. But Georgia's attorney general says she illegally used her office to try to protect the retired investigator and his son, Travis McMichael, who fired the fatal shots.
Both McMichaels already have been convicted and sentenced to prison in back-to-back trials for murder and federal hate crimes. So has a neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, whose cellphone video of the shooting triggered a national outcry over Arbery’s death. A court heard their first appeals six months ago.
The criminal misconduct case against Johnson has moved at a comparative crawl since a grand jury indicted her on Sept. 2, 2021, on a felony count of violating her oath of office and a misdemeanor count of hindering a police officer.
While the men responsible for Arbery's death are serving life sentences, the slain man's family has insisted that justice won’t be complete until Johnson stands trial.
“It’s very, very important,” said Wanda Cooper-Jones, Arbery's mother. “Jackie Johnson was really part of the problem early on.”
Johnson has pleaded not guilty and denied wrongdoing. After losing reelection in 2020, she told The Associated Press that she immediately recused herself in the handling of Arbery's killing because of Greg McMichael's involvement.
Johnson's case has stalled as one of her attorneys, Brian Steel, has spent most of the past two years in an Atlanta courtroom defending Grammy-winning rapper Young Thug against racketeering and gang charges. Jury selection in the case took 10 months, prosecutors began presenting evidence last November and they are still calling witnesses.
Senior Judge John R. Turner, who was assigned to Johnson’s case, insists there is nothing he can do but wait.
“If anyone’s concerned that the case is being shuffled under the rug, I can guarantee you it’s not,” Turner told the AP in a phone interview. “It’s moving at a snail’s pace, but it will move forward eventually.”
After Arbery was killed, Greg McMichael told police that he and his son had armed themselves and chased the Black man, suspecting he was a fleeing criminal. Bryan, who didn't know any of the men, made a similar assumption after seeing them pass his home and joined in his own truck.
The indictment against Johnson alleges she told police they shouldn't arrest Travis McMichael. It also accuses her of “showing favor and affection” to Greg McMichael by calling on George Barnhill, a district attorney in a neighboring judicial circuit, to advise police about how to handle the shooting.
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr appointed Barnhill four days later to take over as outside prosecutor. Carr has said he picked Barnhill without knowing he already had advised police that he saw no grounds for arrests in Arbery's death.
Barnhill stepped aside after a few weeks, but not before he sent a letter to police captain arguing the McMichaels acted legally and Arbery was killed in self-defense.
After Johnson was charged, she reported to jail for booking and was released without having to post bond. Her attorneys waived a formal reading of the charges before a judge and she has yet to appear in court. The judge denied legal motions by Johnson’s lawyers to dismiss the case last November. Court records show no further developments over the past 10 months.
“Securing an indictment is just one step in our ongoing pursuit of justice for Ahmaud Arbery and his family," Carr said in a statement. "We have never stopped fighting for them, and we look forward to the opportunity to present our case in court.”
Johnson's attorneys, Steel and John Ossick, did not respond to emails and a phone message seeking comment. They have argued in court filings there is “not a scintilla of evidence” that she hindered police.
Prosecutors responded with a court filing that listed 16 calls between phones belonging to Johnson and Greg McMichael in the weeks following the shooting.
Two legal experts who aren't involved in the case said there is no deadline for Johnson to stand trial. She hasn't been jailed, so there is little pressure to expedite her case.
Steel's prolonged absence because of the Atlanta gang trial likely isn't the only factor slowing the case, Atlanta defense attorney Don Samuel said.
Courts remain saddled with a backlog of cases since the COVID-19 lockdowns, he said. And the attorney general's office has a limited staff of criminal prosecutors with their own busy caseloads.
Samuel also questioned whether prosecutors have a strong case against Johnson. Even if she opposed charging the McMichaels in Arbery's death, he said, prosecutors haven't accused her of taking bribes or similar blatant corruption.
District attorneys “have a huge amount of discretion to make decisions about what cases to pursue,” Samuel said. “The notion that we’re going to start prosecuting DAs for prosecuting or not prosecuting strikes me as really being on the edge of propriety.”
Danny Porter, the former district attorney for Gwinnett County in metro Atlanta, said prosecutors like Johnson have a legitimate role in advising police on whether or not to arrest suspects before an investigation is complete.
As for Johnson's recommendation in 2020 that the attorney general replace her with another prosecutor who concluded Arbery's killing was justified, Porter said: “I don’t think that’s a violation of the law, though it might have made them mad.”
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