Over on Mastodon there has been some debate about Presidential pardons in the event that despot djt is returned to power by his puppets. Foolishly, I pointed out that Presidential pardons only apply to Federal crimes, not state - which the charges about interference in Georgia are.
The replies have missed the significance of that, and I cannot be bothered trying to explain over there, so:
the point is, if the despot is returned to power after being convicted and imprisoned, he is going to find governing difficult - there’ll be no visits by state dignitaries, no access to state secrets, etc. Everything will have to be done by audio phone call.
Changes could possibly be made, by why would Georgia do that?
Incidentally, candidates have run while imprisoned in the USA before, so the campaigning is not a problem: the question is how would he govern effectively.
PS - I weakened, and posted the following on Mastodon:
I know at least one candidate has run while imprisoned at some stage in the past, so that's evidently not a problem, but the question I'm interested from here is:
how would he govern from inside a jail in the state of Georgia?
Would Georgia make changes so that is possible - could they?
I would imagine visiting state dignitaries wouldn't visit a jail, and there could be ... "problems" with handling state secrets.
Would Georgia release him under some sort of parole conditions - or do the charges prevent that possibility?
If I get sensible reply, I'll post it here.
PPS - Further debate was around reasons for not considering that matter now on the part of one person, but no answer to the question.
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