The battle over two seats on Georgia’s Supreme Court is heating up.
Three major organizations recently announced endorsements of candidates in this year’s contested races. Incumbent Justice Charlie Bethel is being challenged by Miracle Rankin, a personal injury attorney and former president of the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys, and former Democratic state Sen. Jen Jordan is challenging incumbent Justice Sarah Warren.
The seats are considered nonpartisan roles, but advocacy groups on both ends of the political spectrum are working to cast the election as a referendum over abortion rights.
Reproductive Freedom for All, a nonprofit organization that opposes abortion restrictions, announced its endorsement of Jordan and Rankin. The two were also endorsed by Planned Parenthood Votes, which pledged to pour $750,000 into an ad campaign supporting the challengers and casting the incumbent justices as “politicians in robes.”
Bethel and Warren were among the six justices who issued a ruling to reinstate Georgia’s six-week abortion ban in 2024.