Georgia’s House speaker says he’s lifting his ban on a state senator entering the House chamber. The Friday decision came a day after Sen.

Jimmy Carter liked to eat at the Pit Stop in Thomaston, Ga. That was where the future president met a boy who would grow up to be a state trooper.

Georgia Republican State Senator Colton Moore was arrested on Thursday after fighting to be let into the chambers.

LGBTQ+ community members and their allies rallied at Liberty Plaza outside the Georgia State Capitol on Monday as state lawmakers began the 2025 legislative session.

A Georgia state senator who was previously banned from the state House chamber has been arrested after he tried to enter the chamber for the governor’s state of the state speech.

According to arrest warrants, Moore is charged with one misdemeanor count of Willful Obstruction of Law Enforcement Officers.

The Republican senator was arrested by Georgia state police as he was trying to enter the state House chamber. Moore says he's not backing down.

The governor’s annual speech is delivered from the Georgia House chamber, and state Sen. Colton Moore (R-Trenton) was banned last year after he denounced late House Speaker David Ralston as “one of the most corrupt Georgia leaders we’ll ever see in our lifetime.”