This story was updated on Saturday, April 4 at 11:11 a.m.
When lawmakers returned to the Georgia Capitol in January, they found many things just as they left them, including a Republican trifecta in control of the state government with largely unchanged margins in the House and Senate and the same roster of GOP leaders at the helm.
But as the legislature gaveled in, the nation was on the verge of extraordinary upheaval. President Donald Trump was preparing to return to the White House after sweeping every battleground state in the 2024 election, including Georgia.
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