{"id":462,"date":"2024-04-30T14:16:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-upholds-georgia-judicial-candidate-disqualification\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:16:35","slug":"judge-upholds-georgia-judicial-candidate-disqualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-upholds-georgia-judicial-candidate-disqualification\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Upholds Georgia Judicial Candidate Disqualification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Disqualified Fulton County judicial candidate Tiffani Johnson\u2019s bid to contest an order removing her from the race for Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee\u2019s seat fell flat on Thursday when DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Stacey K. Hydrick upheld Office of State Administrative Hearings Judge Ronit Walker\u2019s order disqualifying the attorney\u2019s judicial candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>Near the end of the hearing, <a href=\"https:\/\/kastorflaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kurt Kastorf<\/a> of Kastorf law, representing Johnson, said he found it \u201ctruly remarkable\u201d that the secretary of state admitted that Johnson would have qualified to run under the office\u2019s interpretation of O.C.G.A. \u00a7 21-2-132. However, as the hearing progressed, the parties opposing Johnson grew more and more vocal in their assertion that the court should rule narrowly on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>  Administrative Law Judge Ronit Walker (left) of the Office of State Administrative Hearings and Jeremy Berry of Chilivis Grubman Warner &amp; Berry. (Courtesy photos)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disqualified Fulton County judicial candidate Tiffani Johnson\u2019s bid to contest an order removing her from the race for Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee\u2019s seat fell flat on Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[486,487,484,423,485,483],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-candidate","tag-disqualification","tag-georgia","tag-judge","tag-judicial","tag-upholds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}