A Georgia state senator has been suspended from the Senate Republican caucus after he called for a special session of the legislature over the prosecution of former President Donald Trump by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

Sen. Colton Moore, who represents parts of northwest Georgia, was suspended by his Republican colleagues on Thursday. Moore was accused of misleading his constituents and breaking party rules, while the senator said that he was being targeted for his policy positions. 

“The Georgia RINOs responded to my call to fight back against the Trump witch hunts by acting like children and throwing me out of the caucus. But I’m not going anywhere,” Moore said in a post to X. “I stand by my Republican principles. I stand by the Republican platform. I will continue to serve as a Republican Senator from the great state of Georgia. Unfortunately, now I will be forced to refer to my colleagues, who ran on being ‘Trump conservatives’ as the RINO caucus.” 

The Georgia RINOs responded to my call to fight back against the Trump witch hunts by acting like children and throwing me out of the caucus.  But I’m not going anywhere.

I stand by my Republican principles. I stand by the Republican platform. I will continue to serve as a… https://t.co/3oTXMQj3pA

— Sen. Colton Moore (@realColtonMoore) September 28, 2023

Moore’s call for a special session to review Willis and her prosecution of Trump and his allies over their actions following the 2020 election in Georgia was not supported by Republican leadership in the state, including Governor Brian Kemp. 

“The people of Georgia are 100% with me. This is the fight of our lifetime, and I will continue to double down to defend the rule of law and do what is right,” Moore added. “I will continue to EXPOSE Fani Willis and the RINOs covering for her.

Georgia Senate Republicans said that Moore had a “right to his opinion” but had erred in his actions.

“However, during his advocacy for his ill-conceived proposal, Senator Moore has knowingly misled people across Georgia and our nation, causing unnecessary tension and hostility, while putting his Caucus colleagues and their families at risk of personal harm,” the party said in a statement. “Furthermore, Senator Moore was informed that he has violated multiple Caucus Rules on multiple occasions and was given every opportunity to simply adhere to the Rules going forward, not to abandon his wrongheaded policy position.”

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Moore will still be able to vote, but will not be allowed to caucus with other Senate Republicans. 

Back in August, Willis launched a 41-count indictment against Trump and 18 co-conspirators for allegedly violating the state’s version of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and soliciting an official to violate their oath of office.

Prosecutors preparing to try the 28-year-old man accused of killing four University of Idaho students previously demanded Amazon turn over customer information about the suspect, new court records show.

The suspect, who is not being named by The Daily Wire, has been charged with murdering Ethan Chapin, 20; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Madison Mogen, 21, in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022.

The new released records show that prosecutors demanded in May that Amazon turn over the suspect’s customer information relating to the alleged purchase of knives. Prosecutors had obtained search warrants for customer accounts associated with the suspect at companies including Amazon, Apple, and PayPal, CNN reported. The three companies sent over the requested information, after which it was inventoried and placed into evidence by the Moscow Police Department.

The warrants included requests for “all detailed customer click activity pertaining to knives and accessories,” along with other information that could show the suspect’s shopping movements and interests on the site, ABC News reported. This was done, the warrants said, “in order to locate any materials referencing the planning or commission” of the crime that occurred in November.

The warrant for Apple included a request for instant messages and the contents of files and records stored on iCloud. The warrant for PayPal requested payment information and recipients of any financial transactions, as well as associated information.

The accused has no definite trial date, as the original October start date has been pushed back.

DNA found on a knife sheath left behind at the crime scene has been matched to the suspect, according to court documents.

In early August, his attorneys offered an alibi for the suspect’s whereabouts on the night of the murder, saying he was out driving late at night.

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“[The suspect] has long had a habit of going for drives alone. Often he would go for drives at night. He did so late on November 12 and into November 13, 2022,” Anne Taylor, the suspect’s attorney, wrote in the filing. “[The suspect] is not claiming to be at a specific location at a specific time; at this time there is not a specific witness to say precisely where [my client] was at each moment of the hours between late night November 12, 2022, and early morning November 13, 2022. He was out, driving during the late night and early morning hours of November 12-13, 2022.”

Part of the evidence that led to the suspect’s arrest, mentioned in a previously unsealed probable cause affidavit, showed that police were able to narrow the timeframe of the crime to between 4:00 a.m. and 4:25 a.m. and reviewed video footage taken in the area in the time before and after the murders are believed to have occurred. The footage showed a white Hyundai Elantra without a front license plate (front license plates are required in Washington and Idaho, but not in Pennsylvania, where the car was registered) in the area between 3:29 a.m. and 4:20 a.m.

The vehicle can be seen passing the off-campus residence three times before returning a fourth time around 4:04 a.m. and attempting to turn around on the road. The vehicle was next seen around 4:20 a.m. traveling away from the direction of the off-campus residence at high speed, heading in the direction of a road that eventually leads to Pullman, Washington, where the suspect attended Washington State University (WSU).

Video footage from the WSU campus showed a white Hyundai Elantra leaving the area and heading toward Moscow at around 2:53 a.m. This vehicle was again observed on five cameras in Pullman and the WSU campus at around 5:25 a.m.

Police pulled records for white Hyundai Elantras registered at WSU on November 29 – just over two weeks after the murders were committed – and found one belonging to the man who was eventually arrested. Police reviewed the owner’s Washington state driver’s license and determined he matched the suspect’s physical description provided by one of the surviving roommates.

Police matched the suspect to the vehicle through two previous traffic stops in the months before the murders. They also learned that the suspect registered his car in Washington and received Washington plates on November 18 – five days after the murders.

In a previous filing, the suspect’s attorneys claimed that DNA found at the crime scene may have been planted by police.

“The State’s argument asks this Court and [the suspect] to assume – is that the DNA on the sheath was placed there by [the suspect], and not someone else during an investigation that spans hundreds of members of law enforcement and apparently at least one lab the State refuses to name,” the suspect’s defense attorneys wrote.