Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed the Department of Justice to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Georgia’s Senate Bill 202, an election law critics once called “Jim Crow 2.0.”
The Biden administration had claimed the law suppressed Black voters, but Bondi rejected that argument, citing increased turnout among Black voters since the law’s passage.
“Georgians deserve secure elections, not fabricated claims meant to divide us,” Bondi said Monday. The law, passed in 2021, revised absentee voting rules, early voting procedures, and ballot drop box access.
The DOJ now says Biden officials pushed a false narrative and that the law’s reforms — including voter ID and faster vote reporting — led to record turnout in 2024. RNC Chair Michael Whatley praised the move, calling it a win for election integrity and a rebuke of partisan misinformation.
