Justice Department sues Georgia over voting law after 2020 election

The Justice Department files a lawsuit on June 25, 2021, challenging Georgia's Senate Bill 202 under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The department alleges that parts of the law were adopted with a racially discriminatory purpose. The law changes absentee voting rules, drop boxes, provisional ballot counting, and restrictions on giving food or water to voters waiting in line. Georgia officials deny that the law is discriminatory and defend it as an election-integrity measure. The lawsuit becomes one of the Biden administration's first major voting-rights lawsuits after the 2020 election and after Shelby County weakened preclearance.