New reporting from the AJC’s Politically Georgia highlights how the “once-sleepy” Supreme Court election is now “starting to look a lot more like traditional statewide campaigns.” The reporting highlights the launch of non-partisan candidates Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin’s new statewide TV ad, “Match Up,” underscoring how Jen and Miracle’s highly competitive campaigns are on the offensive as they take on Republican-appointed incumbent justices Sarah Warren and Charlie Bethel.
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Atlanta Journal Constitution: Supreme Fighting
By Greg Bluestein, Tia Mitchell, Patricia Murphy, and Adam Beam | April 14, 2026
- The once-sleepy races for the Georgia Supreme Court are starting to look a lot more like traditional statewide campaigns.
- Allies of candidates Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin are launching a paid TV ad blitz this morning, alongside a statewide organizing push that includes canvasses, phone banks and a pair of press events aimed at promoting their push to oust incumbent Justices Charlie Bethel and Sarah Warren.
- The ad is striking. It opens with Jordan and Rankin in a courtroom facing a counsel table occupied by a trio of curmudgeonly white men, reinforcing the campaign’s effort to frame the race as the people versus the powerful.
- “These guys have enough friends on the Supreme Court,” Rankin says in the spot.
- Jordan closes with a direct appeal: “We’ll fight for you.”
- The campaigns are also planning events in Atlanta and Savannah focused on corporate influence and abortion rights, including an appearance by Amber Thurman’s mother outside the former Savannah Medical Clinic — a reminder of the political fallout from the state’s six-week abortion ban, which was upheld by the court’s Republican-backed incumbents.
- And the race is beginning to get top billing with Democrats ahead of the May 19 election.
- At the party’s Carter-Lewis Dinner over the weekend, speaker after speaker — including U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear — urged activists to focus on the high court contest, signaling Democrats see an opening in a race that rarely draws this level of attention.
- But big-name Republicans are focused on the races, too. On Thursday, Gov. Brian Kemp and first lady Marty Kemp will be the featured guests at a joint fundraiser for Bethel and Warren in Buckhead.
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