The new Georgia elections law signed by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp last week has prompted lawsuits from civil rights groups, a sharp denunciation from President Joe Biden, and calls for businesses to take action against the state.
Opponents of a law that changed voting rules in Georgia are calling for boycotts of high-profile Georgia based companies, including Delta, Coca-Cola and Home Depot. The legislation's opponents say the companies didn't do enough to defeat the measure.
The new Georgia voting law, which includes a mix of onerous voter restrictions and a few mild expansions for voters, is bad enough. Courts' deference to state legislatures on election laws compounds the problem.
Michigan is emerging as the latest battleground in Republicans' nationwide push to restrict voting rights, with GOP officials planning to end-run Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's all-but-certain veto of proposed restrictions and progressives beginning to mobilize to stop them.
CNN's Don Lemon discusses the new voting law in Georgia that restricts ballot access and gives state officials more power over local elections. Georgia state representative Park Cannon was arrested and removed from the Georgia Capitol after the passage of the state's voting bill.
A Hong Kong court has convicted pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai and eight other prominent opposition activists over their roles in an unauthorized assembly at the height of the 2019 protests.
When the coronavirus pandemic began, the challenge for Pfizer and BioNTech wasn't just developing a Covid-19 vaccine -- they also had to make it, and by the hundreds of millions.