ATLANTA — Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns announced Friday afternoon, that with the blessing of former Speaker David Ralston’s family, State Sen. Colton Moore will be allowed back into the House chamber. Capitol police arrested Moore on Thursday while he tried to enter the chamber for the 2025 State of the State address.

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.

A Georgia state senator has been taken into custody after he tried to defy an order banning him from the House chambers during Gov. Brian Kemp's State of the State Address.

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

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.

Sen. Moore was banned from entering House chambers after making controversial comments about late House Speaker David Ralston.

The state senator had been subject to a ban from the House chamber over previous disparaging remarks about late House speaker David Ralston.

Moore was previously banned from the house for making disparaging remarks about Former Speaker David Ralston, who died in 2022.

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.

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

Senator Colton Moore, of Dade County, was arrested on Thursday after he defied the order of Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns that he would not be allowed in for a joint legislative session in Atlanta.

Georgia State Senator was arrested after entering the State House in violation of a ban that was placed on him last year for disparaging remarks.