MAGA Legislator Thrown to the Ground as He Attempts to Defy Georgia House Ban

ONE STOMACH state senator i Georgia was pushed to the ground and arrested on Thursday for trying to defy an injunction and forcefully enter the chambers of the House.

Colton Moore was knocked down as he tried to push past police and officials to enter the chamber for Gov. Brian Kemp’s State of the State address.

Moore, 31, was banned indefinitely from the chambers last year after he referred to the late House Speaker David Ralston as “one of the most corrupt Georgians we’ve seen in our lifetime” during a memorial service for the longtime Republican politician, whose loved ones were present.

Rep. Jon Burns sent a letter to Moore on Wednesday reminding him of his ban, but the lawmaker — from Georgia’s uber-conservative northwest, near the Alabama state line — denied that he was legally required to attend Kemp’s speech and that he would be there .

Moore was met with a blockade of House officials and state troopers Thursday morning, but had to physically intervene to prevent him from entering. Moore stopped his physical push after he hit the tire, video recorded by Atlanta Journal-Constitution showed, but he then started complaining to a state trooper.

“I represent 200,000 people in northwest Georgia who duly elected me to be here today and you’re preventing that,” Moore told an officer.

“I’m not preventing anything,” replied the soldier.

Moore yelled back, “Unconstitutional. You have no respect for the Constitution, complete lack of respect for the Constitution.”

The trooper remained calm and then warned Moore that he would not allow any more of his antics. Moore continued to argue that his house ban was not legal and that he belonged.

After at least two minutes of trying to get in, troopers had enough. They surrounded Moore on all sides and handcuffed him, which he did not resist.

Moore’s office later confirmed he was arrested and taken to the same Fulton County jail where Donald Trump infamously had his mugshot taken last year.

It was outside the same facility that Moore joined the likes of the far right Laura Loomer to protest Trump’s impeachment.

Moore has been a staunch supporter of Trump and has a photo of him smiling next to the president-elect as a pinned post on X. He also describes himself as a “RINO wrangler,” referring to the Trump-era acronym for “Republicans In” Name Only.”

Many in the MAGA world came to Moore’s defense Thursday, calling his ban — and subsequent arrest for defying it — an overreach. That included Loomer, who wrote: “Georgia Speaker just had pro-Trump state Sen. Colton Moore ARRESTED for doing his job and showing up to the legislative session to represent Georgia’s 53rd District at today’s State of the State joint session .RINOS in Georgia are tyrants!”

Moore has been a disruptor in Georgia politics in recent years. He was first elected in 2018 at the age of 25, but began to seriously ruffle feathers within his own party in 2013, when the Georgia Senate Republican Caucus slapped him with a ban of its own for repeatedly attacking his conservative colleagues.

However, these bans have not slowed Moore’s comments against his party colleagues. He wrote to X Wednesday that Representative Burns, a Republican, was a “tyrant.”

Moore’s office has been retweeting calls for Burns to resign — and clips of Moore being thrown to the ground — to his X account since Thursday’s meeting. It also shared a statement there.

“Senator Colton Moore, who exposed and defeated corrupt District Attorney Fani Willis last year, has been arrested by Anti-Trump Speaker of the Georgia House,” the statement read. “Colton is being held in the same prison in Atlanta as President Trump (sic). We are working to secure his release. Please pray for all those standing up for freedom and peace for all Georgians.”