Earlier this week President Donald Trump granted pardons for 77 individuals tied to an alleged "conspiracy" to overturn the 2020 presidential election — including his Georgia allies charged by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. They were lawyers, alternate presidential electors, Republican activists and even a state senator. Among those pardoned who were not charged in the Fulton case included Lt. Gov. Burt Jones (who was a GOP presidential elector), former state GOP chairman David Shafer and Joseph Brannan, now an aide to U.S. Rep. Brian Jack.
The complete, unconditional pardons are largely symbolic, though, because none of the people involved were ever charged in federal court. It all involves state charges. However, lawyers contacted by James Magazine Online point out that the pardons are "protection" from "lawfare" charges that could be waged against them by a future Democrat presidential administration or Democrat attorney general.
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