Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered the Department of Justice to drop a lawsuit against Georgia's 2021 law that allegedly targeted Black voters.
Former Attorney General Merrick Garland sued the state in 2021 because he claimed the law was "enacted with the purpose of denying or abridging the right of Black Georgians to vote on account of their race or color in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act."
Georgia's law added new restrictions to ballot dropbox locations and shortened absentee ballot request times after more Black voters began using them during the 2020 election.
On Monday, Bondi said Garland's lawsuit made "false claims of suppression."
"Georgians deserve secure elections, not fabricated claims of false voter suppression meant to divide us," the attorney general insisted.
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger praised Bondi for the move.
"This reaffirms that the Election Integrity Act stands on solid legal ground," Raffensperger said. "Our commitment has always been to ensure fair and secure elections for every Georgian, despite losing an All-Star game and the left's boycott of Georgia as a result of common sense election law."