Georgia state Sen. Colton Moore (R) was arrested and transported to the Fulton County Jail on Thursday for attempting to enter the House Chamber to hear Gov. Brian Kemp’s (R) state address after being banned from the area last year.
“It has gone too far. I have an obligation to be in that room,” Moore told a group of law enforcement officers preventing him from entering.
“I represent 200,000 people in northwest Georgia who duly elected me to be here today,” he said after being thrown to the ground.
He blamed the interaction on his continued crusade against District Attorney Fani Willis, who presided over President-elect Trump’s election interference case. She was recently disqualified from the case after an affair with one of the top prosecutors.
Moore was suspended from the GOP caucus in 2023 for demanding an “impossible” probe of Willis during a special session.
“Senator Colton Moore, who exposed and defeated corrupt District Attorney Fani Willis last year, has been arrested by the Anti-Trump Speaker of the Georgia House,” Moore’s team wrote in a statement on social platform X.
“Colton is being held in the same Atlanta jail as President Trump. We are working to ensure his expedient release.”
Bruce LeVell, a former senior adviser to Trump, commended Moore for his actions.
“Colton Moore, a loyal, hardworking, pro-Trump Georgia State Senator, was handcuffed and arrested by the House Speaker after attempting to attend the State of the State session to fulfill his duties,” LeVell wrote in a Thursday statement on X.
Moore was released from the jail hours after the incident on Thursday and shared an update to note that he’s receiving medical treatment at Emory University Hospital Midtown located in Atlanta.
Updated at 5:58 pm ET.
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