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

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

ATLANTA — A Georgia state senator arrested at the Capitol Thursday returned Friday. Hours later, the state House Speaker lifted the banishment that resulted in Sen. Colton Moore's arrest. Moore (R-Trenton) showed off a a bit of a bruise he said he got when a House staffer wrestled him to the ground and state troopers took him into custody Thursday.

Colton Moore, a Georgia state senator was stopped and pushed into the ground by the authorities from entering the House chamber.

A right-wing Republican state senator was arrested Thursday morning while attempting to enter the House chambers to attend the State of the State address by GOP Gov. Brian Kemp. Controversial Trenton legislator Colton Moore was handcuffed and removed from the Capitol by state police following an altercation with staff members and law enforcement as Moore

Police pushed state Sen. Colton Moore to the ground and arrested him as he attempted to enter the state House chamber from which he had been banned.

Learn more about the state senator who was arrested for entering the House chamber during Gov. Brian Kemp’s State of the State address.

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

State Senator Colton Moore was arrested as he tried to enter the house chamber for a joint session of lawmakers. The House Speaker had banned him last year from entering the chambers, so state troopers arrested him. But the case made national headlines on Monday and garnered a lot of Republican support for Moore’s cause.

The speaker of the Georgia House announced he would no longer bar a State Senator who was arrested from entering the House chamber.

ATLANTA - Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, who presides over the Georgia Senate, said Friday that he won't tolerate any future episodes like what happened Thursday when Sen. Colton Moore was arrested for trying to enter the state House chambers.