At some point impeachment may not be sufficient.

[11 Bravo]

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]

1. Life without parole.

Simply because I do not believe in the death penalty.

[hlthe2b]

2. Treason has a very specific legal definition requiring action taken

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]

5. Perhaps we need to expand the definition of treason. Mueller said trump knew Russian was

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. Too often re-election - nt

[Miles Archer]

4. And that's a chillingly real possibility

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]

6. Remember "Man without a country"?

Put him on a ship and never let him set foot on land again. Certainly doesn’t deserve to set foot in the US. And take away his phone and TV.

[FakeNoose]

7. "At some point" - we're way past that point, friend

I say bring back the guillotine.

[moondust]

8. The Blade

[sarisataka]

9. Well, back in the old days

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.