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EVA Inc. v. Georgia
Dear Friends,
Since leaving the Georgia House of Representatives at the end of 2020, I have devoted my work to shoring up and defending our institutions from attacks that would contribute to the erosion of public confidence which threatens the fabric of our country. And while I remain a constitutional conservative ideologically, I have found no shortage of those attacks from both major parties.
It is in this spirit that Eternal Vigilance Action Inc’s (EVA) Board of Directors voted unanimously to engage in litigation, which we filed today, against the Georgia State Election Board. The suit would seek to rein in unelected appointees on the State Election Board from overruling the people’s elected representatives in the Georgia General Assembly.
Georgia’s laws, written and approved by elected legislators and signed by a governor, spell out how to conduct our elections across 500 pages, and our state constitution does not allow rules promulgated by unelected appointees on the State Election Board to supersede our laws. Like fellow conservatives across the country, we oppose empowering the administrative state to act with the force of law.
With this lawsuit, we look to re-establish the proper role of the State Election Board to promote consistency, accuracy and proper access across 159 different county election boards, but on a broader scale, we’re looking to affirm the separation of powers required by the state constitution. The legislative branch writes the rules; the executive carries them out as written.
The suit states “the SEB has promulgated rules that contravene the Election Code and violate the state constitution’s separation-of-powers and nondelegation mandates.” It demands that the court declare the board’s rules unconstitutional and prevent their implementation.
On the federal level, conservatives have successfully fought to rein in unelected bureaucrats with the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Chevron Deference, and this case applies that principle on the state level. Republicans should support this conservative approach not only because it upholds our values, but also because we don’t want rules that allow Democratic election officials in our state’s largest population centers to delay certification for all of Georgia when Republicans win.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of EVA, I want to assure you that we undertake this task clear eyed and motivated by a sense of duty to Georgia, her people, and the foundational promises that make up the DNA of every American.
In your service,
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