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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAt some point impeachment may not be sufficient.
To quote the best Vice-President in recent memory, this whistle-blower issue looks like "a big fucking deal".
So, someone remind me. What's the penalty for treason?
kentuck
(111,102 posts)Simply because I do not believe in the death penalty.
hlthe2b
(102,290 posts)to give aid and comfort to enemies against which we are engaged in war.
Even espionage charges might not apply against a President.
Our best course is the litany of impeachment counts and then seeing to it that at least state charges are prosecuted afterward.
Karadeniz
(22,535 posts)Helping him and tacitly(maybe) accepted it. The Russians invaded our election process, a pillar of democracy. They should be formally declared a hostile nation. Aiding and abetting a nation to sabotage American democracy, in spirit, is treason. Trump's conscious decision to not alert our authorities aided and abetted a cyber attack.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)I refrain from posting any of the "projections" from "experts" on how that could happen, because I don't want to be a buzzkill, and don't want to accept that as a possibility. That said, it's a possibility, and that's what we have to focus on for the next year-plus: doing everything we can to energize voters so that it doesn't happen.
captain queeg
(10,208 posts)Put him on a ship and never let him set foot on land again. Certainly doesnt deserve to set foot in the US. And take away his phone and TV.
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)I say bring back the guillotine.
moondust
(19,991 posts)sarisataka
(18,663 posts)Treason was punished by being hanged, drawn and quartered.
A convicted traitor was fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces).
We could do it on the mall or maybe televised in front of a join session of Congress as a warning to future candidates. Either way, it would send a message.