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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCould they arrest and detain trump and his crew?
Using terrorist laws enacted after 9-11?
still_one
(92,303 posts)If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384
duforsure
(11,885 posts)RealityCheque
(473 posts)kentuck
(111,106 posts)under the authority of the Justice Department of the United States, led by the Attorney General.
RealityCheque
(473 posts)I think its important that we use specifics rather that they simply because hearing they is getting to the point of hearing statements like they are denying me of my constitutional rights, if you catch my drift.
tinrobot
(10,909 posts)But if you arrest them, the charges damn well better stick.
I'd much rather wait until Garland ensures that those charges stick.