Georgia On My Mind

Georgia is a long way from Asia, you might say – but try telling that to the enormous Asian diaspora communities in the Atlanta suburbs. Asia Times is an Asia-based and Asia-focused digital newspaper, yes, but we do not neglect the farther reaches of the planet.

Which brings me to one fascinating sidelight of the latest round of criminal charges against Donald Trump by the Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutor: If Trump is convicted, not only can he not pardon himself but he can’t demand that the Republican governor pardon him.

What’s the background of that? Here’s part of what the website of the state’s board of pardons and paroles has to say, very gingerly:

Careful readers of Asia Times may recall that you know something about those 1940s“serious questions.”

As I reported for Asia Times on December 11, 2020, in an article entitled “the devil went down to georgia: from judge hawkins’s sunday school class to a purple, less trumpish georgia”:

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But the judge and his forces long since had backed and seen to completion a major (and some of us would say positive) change in state law. Here’s more from the Board of Pardons and Paroles:

Now you know about that. Stay tuned for more news, background and analysis from the Peach State.

Asia Times Associate Editor Bradley Martin grew up in Marietta, Georgia. While attending Atlanta’s Emory University Law School in the 1960s, he worked in the election campaigns of US Representative James A Mackay and Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson.

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