The Republican-led Senate is targeting local governments that do not cooperate with federal immigration officials. Sovereign immunity protects local governments from lawsuits. Senate Democrats oppose ...

Local governments could decide to do away with their ordinances addressing homelessness so that they would not come under the scope of the waiver of sovereign immunity, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vidalia Republican Sen. Blake Tillery speaks with media following Thursday, Feb. 13, passage of Senate Bill 21, which leaves local ...

Republican state lawmakers say if local governments try to protect immigrants with “sanctuary” policies, the state should strip them of their immunity to being sued. The Georgia Senate approved Senate ...

A Georgia Senate committee approved a bill that would allow lawsuits against schools and local governments that don't comply with federal immigration laws. The bill aims to penalize so-called ...

IN reply to some supposed legal experts who have been moving around in town and online, claiming that there is no such thing as "sovereign immunity," I will devote my entire column today to a listing ...