A judge has ruled in favor of activists attempting to put Cop City on a ballot this fall, issuing a scathing decision saying that Atlanta officials placed unlawful restrictions on activists’ ballot effort.
Environmental activists hold a rally and a march through the Atlanta Forest, a preserved forest that is scheduled to be developed as a police training center, on March 4, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia.On Thursday, a judge ruled in favor of activists attempting to put Cop City on a ballot this fall, issuing a scathing decision saying that Atlanta officials placed unlawful restrictions on activists’ ballot effort.
The decision was a blistering rebuke, saying the city failed time and again to provide evidence to back up their argument that signature gatherers should be required to be Atlanta residents. “Requiring signature gatherers to be residents of the city imposes a severe burden on core political speech and does little to protect the city’s interest in self-governance,” Cohen wrote, saying that
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