Defense Attorney Kevin Gough is backtracking on his controversial comments last week in the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial in Brunswick.

President Biden is signing the infrastructure bill that will bring billions to Georgia improvement projects.

Georgia prosecutors have focused on testimony from law enforcement and neighbors in the trial of Greg and Travis McMichael and Roddie Bryan, accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.

Friday on Political Rewind: In a trial already infused with questions about racism, a defense lawyer added fuel to the fire yesterday with comments about the presence of Black religious leaders in the courtroom. Meanwhile, Sen. Raphael Warnock acknowledges Democrats have to do a better job telling voters how their big-ticket legislative agenda will improve daily lives.

An attorney for one of three white men standing trial in the death of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia says he doesn't want "any more Black pastors" in the courtroom. Attorney Kevin Gough made the comment to the trial judge Thursday, a day after the Rev. Al Sharpton sat in back of the courtroom with Arbery's parents.

One of the three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery told police they had the 25-year-old Black man "trapped like a rat" before he was fatally shot.

A patrol officer who interviewed Greg McMichael at the scene of the February 2020 shooting told a jury Tuesday that McMichael at first told him Arbery had been caught on video "breaking in all these houses out here." Later he said Arbery had been recorded entering a single home still under construction a few times.

Jurors in a Georgia courtroom have been shown graphic crime scene photos of the gunshot wounds that killed Ahmaud Arbery.

The Georgia Senate is set to vote on new boundaries for its 56 lawmakers. 

Yesterday, jurors were shown graphic police photos and bodycam images in the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial.

Attorneys still aim to finish presenting their cases in mid-November despite a longer-than-expected jury selection process that’s drawing criticism for producing only one Black juror in a case where race has become a central issue.

The trial continues today for the three white men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was shot and killed as he jogged through a Glynn County neighborhood last year.

Senator Jon Ossoff addressed the thousands of world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow over the weekend.

The men chasing Ahmaud Arbery in their pickups got so close to him that his hand print was found on one of the trucks, along with fibers from his T-shirt, prosecutors told the jury.

Eleven jurors in the case are white, and one is Black. While the judge acknowledged "intentional discrimination in the panel," he said he was unable to reinstate any jurors who had been dismissed.

The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute is urging the state’s congressional delegation to support President Biden’s Build Back Better plan. 

Opening arguments begin today in the Glynn County murder trial of Greg and Travis McMichael, and William "Roddie" Bryan -- the three white men accused of chasing, accosting, and fatally shooting a Black jogger named Ahmaud Arbery.
 

Jury selection is in its third week in Georgia as attorneys question jurors in the murder trial of three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black jogger.

Thursday on Political Rewind: The jury selection tasked with deciding the fate of Travis and Gregory McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan was announced Wednesday. Prosecutors protested the final jury selection, arguing the makeup does not match the demographics of Glynn County.