Georgia House votes to strip Delta Air Lines of big tax break after carrier's CEO condemns state's new voting curbs

Republicans in the Georgia House of Representatives voted late Wednesday to strip Delta Air Lines of a tax break worth tens of millions of dollars annually. The vote followed the company's CEO condemning harsh new voting restrictions in the state earlier in the day.

But it was rendered symbolic when the state Senate failed to take up the measure before adjourning its yearly session. The moves came after some of Georgia's most prominent corporate leaders began to more forcefully criticize the state's sweeping new election law Wednesday, acknowledging concerns of civil rights activists, Black clergymen and Black business executives who say the measure targets non-white voters and threatens the democratic process.