The GA Supreme Court ruled that despite receiving the absentee ballots late, voters had to either return them to the Cobb County Elections office by 7 p.m. on Election Day or vote in person.

The lawyers cited a professional rule permitting withdrawal when, among other things, the client “renders the representation unreasonably difficult.”

Republicans kept Rep. Jan Jones of Milton as House Speaker Pro Tem and Rep. Chuck Efstration of Dacula as majority leader. Rep. James Burchett of Waycross will remain whip, while Rep. Houston Gaines of Athens will remain vice chair and Rep. Bruce Williamson III of Monroe will remain caucus chair.

The Supreme Court has refused to let former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows move the election interference case against him in Georgia to federal court.

Then-Florida congressman Matt Gaetz sharply criticized Gov. Brian Kemp in 2022 for not appointing a Donald Trump loyalist to the U.S. Senate.

The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to let Mark Meadows move his Georgia election subversion case to federal court, effectively barring the former chief of staff during Donald Trump’s first term from claiming immunity from those charges.

CNN and NBC News have projected Trump will win the state. Now that Georgia has gone to Trump, Harris cannot win the presidential election without winning Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. At the time networks called Georgia for Trump, Harris was behind in all three states.

Mark Meadows argued the crimes he is accused of committing involved work that were part of his federal job at the White House.

Georgia is a key battleground state in the 2024 presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, with 16 electoral votes at stake.

With the victory, Trump nets 16 electoral votes in the state that was the focal point in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

“We’ve shown the country that Georgia remains a red state, with big wins up and down the ticket,” said state House Speaker Pro Tempore Jan Jones, R-Milton. “We will take this mandate from the voters to continue lowering taxes, protecting our neighborhoods and quality of life, and providing more options for Georgia’s students to thrive.”