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Ms. Greene’s critics argued that her reference to the gathering of Trump supporters on the National Mall as “our 1776 moment” had been a code word that was used to incite violence. Judge Beaudrot disagreed, writing that he was “unpersuaded” that the comment was a “coded call” for a violent insurrection.

“Heated political rhetoric? Yes,” the judge said. “Encouragement to supporters of efforts to prevent certification of the election of President Biden? Yes. Encouragement to attend the Save America Rally or other rallies and to demonstrate against the certification of the election results? Yes. A call to arms for consummation of a pre-planned violent revolution? No.”

James Bopp Jr., a lawyer for Ms. Greene, said on Friday that he hoped the ruling would put an end to widespread efforts to discredit Republican officials as engaging in an insurrection.

“The Democrat lawyers and their allies who wanted to use First Amendment-protected speech — hyperbole — by Representative Greene to prove that she participated in an insurrection were sternly rebuffed by the judge,” Mr. Bopp said. “That’s good news for the First Amendment and good news for our democracy.”

Free Speech for People, the legal advocacy organization that pursued the case against Ms. Greene, panned the decision and urged Georgia’s secretary of state to defy Judge Beaudrot’s ruling.

“This decision betrays the fundamental purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause and gives a pass to political violence as a tool for disrupting and overturning free and fair elections,” the group said in a statement.

A spokesman for Mr. Raffensperger, a Republican who is Georgia’s top elections official, said in an email on Friday that Mr. Raffensperger had received Judge Beaudrot’s ruling and would be reaching a decision soon.

Mr. Raffensperger is facing a primary challenge from Representative Jody Hice, a Republican endorsed by Mr. Trump. The former president has criticized Mr. Raffensperger for rebuffing his attempts to overturn the election results in the state. Georgia holds its primary elections on May 24.