The Supreme Court of Georgia’s newest justice has decided to recuse rather than sit on a pending appeal over who will fill Justice Keith Blackwell’s seat. 

As one of her first acts after she was sworn in on April 10, Carla Wong McMillian became the sixth justice to step aside, rather than hear a contentious appeal by two would-be candidates barred from qualifying to run for Blackwell’s seat, after the justice decided not to stand for re-election.