Judge rejects lawsuit to disqualify Georgia’s lieutenant governor for acting as Trump elector



FILE - Georgia Republican Burt Jones, then a state senator and now lieutenant governor, hands in an electoral certificate claiming to be a duly chosen elector for Donald Trump on Dec. 14, 2020, at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. A judge on Friday, Jan. 5, 2024 tossed out a legal action arguing Jones should be disqualified from holding office in Georgia because of his actions as an elector. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)

FILE - Georgia Republican Burt Jones, then a state senator and now lieutenant governor, hands in an electoral certificate claiming to be a duly chosen elector for Donald Trump on Dec. 14, 2020, at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. A judge on Friday, Jan. 5, 2024 tossed out a legal action arguing Jones should be disqualified from holding office in Georgia because of his actions as an elector. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, File)


A judge rejected a lawsuit Friday that sought to disqualify Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones from holding office because of the Republican’s participation as an elector for Donald Trump in 2020.

Butts County Superior Court Judge Thomas Wilson ruled that the four voters who sued couldn’t use the kind of legal action they filed to attack actions Jones took in 2020 while he was a state senator.

The suit echoed other efforts elsewhere to keep Trump and some of his supporters off ballots and to prosecute people who falsely claimed to be valid Trump electors in states Joe Biden won.

Richard Rose, a civil rights activist who is one of the plaintiffs, said Friday that he had expected Wilson to rule against him and that he anticipates an appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court.

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