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Donald Trump Seizes on Stacey Abrams' Sister Being Judge in Georgia Voter Fraud Case Newsweek 1/2/2021 Benjamin Fearnow © Screenshot: Stacey Abrams | Facebook President Donald Trump on Saturday attempted to weave the sister of Georgia voting rights activist Stacey Abrams, U.S. District Judge Leslie A. Gardner, into his latest desperate effort to take hold of the state's election process. President Donald Trump on Saturday attempted to insert U.S. District Judge Leslie A. Gardner, the sister of Georgia voting rights activist Stacey Abrams, as part of his latest desperate e...

31 Dec 2020 Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner, the sister of former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D-GA) and an appointee of former President Barack Obama, changed an order on Wednesday that she issued two days prior regarding the voting eligibility of 4,000 persons in a Georgia county. On Monday, Gardner blocked challenges to voter eligibility in two Georgia counties — Muscogee County and Ben Hill County — ahead of Georgia’s runoff elections. The counties sought to require registered voters — about 4,000 in Muscogee and 125 in Ben Hill — to cast provisional ballots due to changes...

  Share Source: AP Photo/John Minchillo Federal Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner recently blocked two Georgia counties from conducting a voter purge of thousands of people suspected to have moved out of the area. This comes ahead of the critical Georgia Senate runoffs that will decide who controls the US Senate. Judge Gardner is the sister of Stacey Abrams, a rising Democratic Party star because of her failed 2018 gubernatorial run. Abrams refused to concede that race and has spent  time since that race to flip Georgia blue. She did that. So, it seems pretty unlikely that legal challenges could...

What's True U.S. District Court Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner is the sister of Stacey Abrams, and ruled on a voter-registration case that was very similar to another case before a different district court in Georgia, which involved Abrams' voting rights organization Fair Fight. What's False Neither Abrams nor Fair Fight were a party to the specific case before Abrams Gardner in the Middle District of Georgia in December 2020. The case involving Abrams and Fair Fight was overseen by a different judge in a different court. Origin In December 2020, right-leaning observers and prominen...

POLITICO Print Continue to article content Voters return to their vehicles after early voting for the Senate runoff election at Ron Anderson Recreation Center in Powder Springs, Ga. | AP Photo/Todd Kirkland The judge, the sister of Stacey Abrams, drew fierce attacks from Trump allies for declining to recuse. Updated A federal judge has agreed to allow a Georgia county to require that certain voters cast provisional ballots, just days before two runoff elections in the state that will decide control of the U.S. Senate. More than 4,000 voters faced eligibility challenges ahead of the Jan. 5 ru...