https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/08/27/judge-calls-for-daily-fines-after-fulton-county-panel-refuses-to-seat-gop-picks-for-election-board/The Fulton County Board of Commissioners has been held in civil contempt of court after defying a court order mandating that they appoint two GOP nominees to the county board of elections.
In a Wednesday ruling, Senior Superior Court Judge David Emerson said the board will be fined $10,000 per day until the panel agrees to approve Julie Adams and Jason Frazier’s appointments to the elections board.
“The court finds beyond a reasonable doubt that the Board of Commissioners has failed to comply with this court’s order,” Emerson wrote in his ruling.
The judge declined to hold any of the commissioners in criminal contempt of court, but ordered that the board of commissioners must pay the Fulton County Republican Party’s legal fees in the case. While normally the fees would be paid to the county government, Emerson said the fines would instead be paid to the superior court clerk and transferred to the state of Georgia.
The ruling is the latest development in a case that stretches back to May, when the Fulton County Republican Party attempted to nominate Adams, an incumbent board member, and Frazier, a newcomer, to the county board of elections.
Did anybody think when democrats were talking about democracy, due process and compying with the courts, they actually meant it?
