A bill requiring Georgia voters to show a photo identification before casting a ballot stirred up controversy and threats of censure in the state House.

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A bill requiring Georgia voters to show a photo identification before casting a ballot stirred up controversy and threats of censure in the state House. Speaker Glenn Richardson tried to gavel Representative Alisha Thomas Morgan into silence after she had exceeded the time allowed for personal comments on the bill that had passed the previous night, in a rare breach of House rules, Morgan continued to speak and then began singing "Marching to the Freedom Land" as she left the well. African American lawmakers in both chambers had walked out to protest passage of the legislation, and had brought shackles into the well when speaking against the...