The tumultuous aftermath of our last presidential election keeps washing up not just in Washington, D.C., but on the doorstep of Atlanta, Georgia. Of the four recent indictments of Donald Trump and his associates, the most sweeping is slated for a likely-to-be-televised trial as early as next March 2024 in a courtroom of Fulton County, where most Atlantans live, promising to keep the nation's political spotlight fixated on this southern metropolis for months if not years to come.
The national headlines emanating from Atlanta started well before that, in November 2020, when Georgia provided nearly half (44%) of Joe Biden's electoral college margin and then held two runoff elections the following January that delivered a de facto Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate.
