Overview

• On August 7, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr sued Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in U.S. District Court in Atlanta to enjoin Jones’s leadership committee during the GOP primary.
• Carr’s complaint notes the committee has amassed over $14 million, including a $10 million loan from Jones himself under a 2021 law permitting unlimited contributions.
• The suit argues the leadership committee violates Carr’s First Amendment free speech rights and 14th Amendment equal protection by creating an uneven playing field.
• Carr is requesting that the court bar repayment of the $10 million loan from committee funds and appoint a magistrate judge to oversee all committee spending.
• Jones’s campaign has accused Carr of hypocrisy for attacking a law his office defended and the Georgia Ethics Commission recently refused to investigate the loan’s source.