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Moving the All-Star Game was the right call

Related Topics: Georgia, Rob Manfred, Phil Niekro

On Friday afternoon, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced that the 2021 All-Star Game and MLB Draft would not be held in Georgia in response to recently-passed state legislation affecting elections. It is a frankly astonishing move, and is worthy of our praise.

To be clear, this article is not a place to debate the merits of said Georgia law. Sources more professional than this site have already read through it and confirmed that, yes, it does indeed make it harder for many Georgia voters to cast their ballots, particularly Black voters.