Democrats, accused of threatening democracy, now to be fined $10,000 per DAY

Democrats in one Georgia County are facing charges they are threatening democracy for their persistent refusal to seat properly nominated and appointed Republican members to a county board.

And now they are going to be fined $10,000 per day, payable to the court every day, which of course will be coming from the county’s taxpayers.

BREAKING: Georgia Judge orders Fulton County Board of Commissioners to pay $10,000 per day fine for rogue Democrats who refuse to appoint Republican nominees to Fulton County Board of Elections as required by law.

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The fight is in Fulton County where the commissioners have refused to allow two Republican nominees to take part in the county Board of Elections “as required by law,” according to a report in the Gateway Pundit.

It is Democrats on the board of commissioners who over and over have refused to seat “the lawfully nominated Republican Party nominees Jason Frazier and Julie Adams.

The Democrats claim the two GOP members are “election deniers,” but the facts show the reality. It was during the 2020 presidential election, then-Board of Elections members Mark Wingate and Kathleen Ruth declined to certify the election results because they were denied access to any chain of custody documents.

“Wingate testified during the 2024 disbarment hearing of former DOJ Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark that when he inquired how Fulton County conducted signature verification when the county’s brand new BlueCrest sorter machines were inoperable, he was told ‘we didn’t do any [signature verification].’”

The report noted, “This morning, Superior Court Judge David Emerson found ‘beyond a reasonable doubt that the Board of Commissioners has failed to comply with the court’s order’ and has held the Board in civil contempt. Beginning on Friday, August 29th at 12 p.m., the Board will be fined $10,000 for every day that they fail to appoint the Republican Party’s members to the Board of Elections. He further noted that the fine ‘is to be paid daily’ but stopped short of holding the respondents in criminal contempt.”

The ruling found the Democrats have been “stubbornly litigious and acted in bad faith.”

WND previously reported that the judge had tried scolding the Democrats to get them to follow the law.

The judge pointed out the Democrats had created a new definition for the word “shall.”

The law says that Democrats shall nominate two candidates, Republicans two and the county a fifth to the elections board.

However, Democrats on the board of county commissioners decided they didn’t like the opinions of the two Republicans nominated, so they were going to ignore the law and they told the GOP to come up with other names, names of individuals that the Democrats would like.

Emerson demolished their ideology:

“The court … notes that the appointment statute contains no provision to support the respondents’ position that it should have the power to veto any given nominee and force the county chairperson to submit other nominees. There is nothing in the statute to support the BOC theory that the county commissioners can veto the chairperson’s nominees other than for failure of the nominee to meet the two qualifications and one restriction (be a county resident, be an elector, and cannot be a holder of elected office).

“”The court finds that the ‘shall’ as used here is mandatory, and the BOC does not have discretion to disapprove an otherwise qualified nominee. The court grants the petitioner’s request for a writ of mandamus directing the BOC to comply with the statute: The board shall appoint the two members as nominated by the county executive committee chairperson. Those nominees are Jason Frazier and Julie Adams.”

Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley, who has testified as an expert on the Constitution before Congress and even represented members in court, said it was a loss for Democrats who now “have lost their effort to block two Republican commissioners from sitting on Fulton County’s Board of Elections because of their political views.”

He said significant was “not just the raw partisanship but the utter lack of legal authority of Democrats to refuse to recognize the duly selected GOP members.”

One of the radicals opposing the Democratic process through which nominees are selected, Commissioner Marvin Arrington, had claimed, “I think the Republican party ought to take a look at their people and not nominate people that are on the far right and nominate people that are in the center.”

Turley noted that, “While self-proclaimed defenders of democracy often seem to have no qualms about curtailing democratic choices from ballot cleansing to jurisdiction flight, this is particularly raw and outrageous. There is no law supporting this action and the state law is clear on the need to seat the GOP commissioners.”