Last month, President Joe Biden announced plans to forgive up to $20,000 in student loan debt, with the forgiveness targeted primarily at working and middle class households. In the weeks following the announcement, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has joined 21 other Republican governors from around the country in opposing the President’s decision.
With less than a few months until the midterm elections, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, who is now campaigning for a full term after winning a runoff election last year, is calling the bluff on his Republican Senate challenger Herschel Walker for refusing any public debates before the election in November.
House Bill 481, also called the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, is a 10-page bill that was passed in 2019 and almost immediately blocked by a federal judge who claimed the law violated the precedent of Roe v. Wade; now it’s heading to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and threatens to restrict abortion rights across the state, if reinstated.
