Judge Robert McBurney sensationally ruled that “It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies.” David Thompson ...

There he goes again. In a kooky ruling back in November 2022, Georgia superior court judge Robert McBurney invoked and misapplied the “void ab initio doctrine” to bar state officials from ...

A Georgia judge overturned the state's six-week abortion law, that was signed by Gov. Brian Kemp in 2019, ... Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney issued the order on Monday, ...

Context: McBurney, once called "the hardest working judge in Georgia," has presided over high-profile cases involving a Buckhead attorney who fatally shot his wife, a judge accused of ethical ...

Judge McBurney took over the role immediately following the restructuring of the JQC in 2016. "Serving on the Judicial Qualifications Commission’s Hearing Panel has been a highlight of my tenure ...

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - AUGUST 14: Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney receives documents from the county court clerk on August 14, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney of Fulton County, Georgia, ruled that "no election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and registration) may refuse to certify or abstain from ...

A Georgia judge ruled Tuesday that county election officials may not delay or decline to certify election results based on suspicions of fraud. Fulton County Superior Judge Robert McBurney wrote in… ...

Fulton County Judge Robert McBurney wrote in an order Monday that "election superintendents in Georgia have a mandatory fixed obligation to certify election results" by Nov. 12.

ATLANTA — A Georgia judge has ruled county election officials must certify election results by the deadline set in law and cannot exclude any group of votes from certification even if they ...

A Georgia judge appeared skeptical of allowing a new rule to go forward this November that would require voting precincts to hand count ... Judge Robert C. I. McBurney asked Robert Thomas, ...

The Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney is stepping down as the presiding officer of the Judicial Qualifications Commission Hearing Panel after seven years.