Jill Nolin, Georgia Recorder

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has asked the state Supreme Court to allow Georgia’s six-week abortion ban to be enforced again while the state’s appeal is being considered.

The six-week ban was tossed aside Monday when Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert C. I. McBurney ruled that it conflicts with the Georgia Constitution’s privacy and liberty protections.

Georgia’s 2019 law bans most abortion once fetal cardiac activity is detected, which is about six weeks into a pregnancy and before most women know they are pregnant. McBurney’s ruling resurrected Georgia’s previous law, which allows abortions until about 20 weeks. ...

Abortion rights advocates are cheering Monday’s court ruling that brought back expanded services in Georgia, even as they brace for the likelihood that further judicial action could make it short-lived.

And supporters of Georgia’s six-week abortion ban hope they are right.

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr’s office has already said the state will appeal a Fulton County judge’s ruling that the law conflicts with the Georgia Constitution, putting it back in the hands of the Georgia Supreme Court. Carr’s office has not said whether the state will ask the state’s highest court to allow the ban to be enforced while an appeal is pending. ...

National and state Democrats plan to file a lawsuit on behalf of local election officials challenging a controversial new rule requiring election workers to hand count ballots on election day.

The Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Party of Georgia, with support from the Harris campaign, will challenge a rule passed this month that was pushed through by three state election board members that former President Donald Trump said are “pit bulls fighting for honesty, transparency and victory.”

The new rule requires that three poll workers sort ballots into piles of 50 and count every ballot to determine if the hand count accurately aligns with the number of total ballots scanned at each polling location on Election Day. ...

The Democratic Party is set to gavel in its national convention Monday in Chicago, and the Peach State will have a big presence.

Georgia will provide 108 pledged delegates and another 15 automatic delegates, better known as superdelegates. All of them are expected to support Vice President Kamala Harris in her efforts to win the state and take back the White House.

A full list of speakers has not yet been released, but recent conventions have seen speeches from Georgia names like Stacey Abrams and Jason Carter, and Georgia’s delegation is set to hear from major Democratic players from across the country. ...

COLUMBUS – First lady Jill Biden rallied Democrats in a west Georgia community that’s home to one of the country’s largest military bases Monday as the Biden-Harris campaign works to tamp down concerns after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance in Atlanta more than a week ago.

The first lady, who is one of the president’s fiercest surrogates, hit the campaign trail with a three-stop swing through battleground states as the president ramped up his efforts to firmly reject calls for him to bow out of the race.

The trio of events was part of the campaign’s launch of Veterans and Military Families for Biden-Harris. Fort Moore, formerly Fort Benning, is near Columbus. ...