New cities' hit little speed bump known as 'lawsuit'

This should be very, very, very interesting. So reporteth the AJC's Katie Leslie:

The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus filed a lawsuit Monday against the state of Georgia seeking to dissolve the city charters of Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Johns Creek, Milton and Chattahoochee Hills. Further, the lawmakers, joined by civil rights leader the Rev. Joseph Lowery, aim to dash any hopes of a Milton County.

The lawsuit, filed in a North Georgia U.S. District Court Monday, claims that the state circumvented the normal legislative process and set aside its own criteria when creating the “super-majority white ” cities within Fulton and DeKalb counties. The result, it argues, is to dilute minority votes in those areas, violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution.

North Fulton politicos, as you'd expect, say the lawsuit is without merit. And that might be the case! (Frankly, it's hard to imagine a judge actually dissolving the cities' charters.) UPDATE: State Rep. Wendell Willard, R-Sandy Springs, told 11 Alive the cities received clearance prior to their creation from the U.S. Justice Department, which handles issues pertaining to the Voting Rights Act.

But the caucus' argument is sure to generate a lot of chatter. And we're still gonna watch this process, day and night, with giant bowls of popcorn in our laps. And while wearing virtual reality headgear.