By Stacy Robinson The Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing Fulton County, Georgia, to obtain voting records from the 2020 election. The Fulton County suit, filed on Dec. 11, stems from a July resolution passed by the State Election Board of Georgia “calling upon the assistance of the Attorney General to effect compliance with voting […]
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Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Named for George Washington, the first U.S. president, the state was made out of the western part of the Washington Territory, which was ceded by the British Empire in 1846, in accordance with the Oregon Treaty in the settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute. The state, which is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, Oregon to the south, Idaho to the east, and the Canadian province of British Columbia to the north, was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Olympia is the state capital; the state’s largest city is Seattle. Washington is often referred to as Washington State to distinguish it from the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C.
