(The Center Square) – A judge said Wednesday that the Fulton County Board of Commissioners will be subjected to a fine of $10,000 a day beginning Friday if it doesn’t comply with a court order to seat two Republican members on its election board.
Senior Fulton County Judge David Emerson issued the ruling a week after the board voted 2-2 not to appoint Julie Adams and Jason Frazier. Three other commission members were absent.
The Fulton County Republican Party sued and Emerson held a hearing Wednesday.
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Emerson said he was not holding the commissioners in criminal contempt; rather, civil contempt.
“The court does find that the respondent Board of Commissioners has been stubbornly litigious and acted in bad faith in its conduct prior to this litigation by
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