Georgia lawmakers returned Monday to the Gold Dome for what is expected to be a lively election-year legislative session.
But for now, lawmakers are mostly tending to the usual housekeeping tasks that greet each session, like setting a calendar that will dictate the length of the session and which days lawmakers will meet.
The session started just a month after lawmakers met for a tense special session to redraw Georgia’s political maps after a judge ruled the first attempts passed in 2021 illegally diluted the voting strength of Black Georgians. That same judge has since approved the new maps.
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