Tribe: We'd be talking about TREASON in all but the narrowest techincal sense.

[triron]

Link to tweet

[marlakay]

1. Can we hang him in front of Trump Tower? Nt

[BigmanPigman]

2. It needs to be in a larger area so we can all witness it.

Actually, there probably isn't a space large enough for all the people who would want to be there.

[marlakay]

3. Sell tickets and it would pay for healthcare

[BigmanPigman]

6. And still have plenty left over.

[boston bean]

5. Maybe at the burning man event?

[Fuzzpope]

14. Hmm

We could have the Spaaaaaace Force do it. From orbit and stuff.

*ahem*

[ProudMNDemocrat]

8. Naked as the day he entered this world......

[Marie Marie]

17. DUzy!!!

[bdamomma]

13. .....................

[sarcasmo]

18. Manafort too and make it a pay per view, benefit event.

[MLAA]

22. It would be so much worse to give him life without tanning bed.

[UniteFightBack]

4. It's TREASON-ISH....close enough. nt

[smirkymonkey]

7. K&R

[MFGsunny]

9. K & R ... + 1,000,000

[empedocles]

10. traitortrump needs to die s l o w l y.

[Botany]

11. This man would know what is treason

From Wiki:

Laurence Henry "Larry" Tribe (born October 10, 1941) is a China-born American lawyer and scholar who is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at the Harvard Law School in Harvard University. Tribe's scholarship focuses on American constitutional law. He also works with the firm Massey & Gail LLP on a variety of matters.[5]
Tribe is a constitutional law scholar[6][7] and cofounder of American Constitution Society. He is the author of American Constitutional Law (1978), a major treatise in that field, and has argued before the United States Supreme Court 36 times.

Early life and education[edit]
Tribe was born in Shanghai, China, the son of Paulina (née Diatlovitsky) and George Israel Tribe.[12] His family was Jewish. His father was from Poland and his mother was born in Harbin, to immigrants from Eastern Europe.[13][14][15] He was raised in the French Concession of Shanghai.[13] Tribe attended Abraham Lincoln High School, San Francisco, California. He holds an A.B. in mathematics, summa cum laudefrom Harvard College (1962), and a J.D., magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (1966), where he was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. Tribe was a member of the Harvard team that won the intercollegiate National Debate Tournament in 1961 and coached the team to the same title in 1969.

BTW 33 cases in front of SCOTUS

[ffr]

15. G-Dammit! I want somebody's butts!!! I've had it! (that's what I feel like)

[Takket]

16. drumpf has committed treason and is a traitor.......

He may not have done so under the exact wording of the Constitution (which to me is debatable), but by the dictionary definition of those terms he most definitely has.

As for the Constitutional definition.... I certainly think if Congress were to consider, when all the facts are revealed, that Russia committed an act of war against us by trying to undermine our election and government, that drumpf would be guilty of treason. It would stand to reason that if an American were helping wage war against the USA and we simply did not know about it AT THE TIME, that it is still a war.

A more extreme example would be a politician helping a foreign power gain access to our nuclear launch codes and use one of our weapons against us. We may not have been in a state of war against that country AT THE TIME, but I don't think anyone would argue that person should be treated as a traitor under the Constitutional definition... whether that label can be applied retroactively is something I suppose the courts would have to decide.

Of course, a lot of this is sauce for the goose..... since even without the Constitutional definition, drumpf and his family I feel have committed enough serious crimes that they will spend life in prison.

[triron]

21. Thanks. I feel very similarly. Declarations of (shooting) war are obsolete.

[FakeNoose]

19. The legal definition of treason is very narrow

... in the law even though we're using the word a lot here on DU. (myself included)

I guess the smartest lawyers among us - including Robert Mueller - recognize that the same evidence that would win a conviction on conspiracy charges, might not win a conviction on treason charges. I trust Mr. Mueller and if he doesn't go for treason against Trump, I'm OK with that.

[DesertRat]

20. If so, he needs to be indicted

The Mueller report will go nowhere if it lands with this feckless GOP in Congress.

[paleotn]

23. The penalty for treason is....

I'd like to see the orange baboon in cell next to Aldrich Ames for the rest of his miserable, despicable life. May they both live long and suffer horribly.

[triron]

24. knr