coeliacmccarthy [he/him]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months agoColorado Supreme Court says Trump is ineligible to run againwww.politico.comexternal-linkmessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: usa@kbin.socialusa@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.netMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·edit-27 months agoonly the federal DOJ, the president, or congress can charge someone w treason. this might be the most Colorado can do, as milquetoast as it is edit: on further investigation, some states do have laws against treason and people have been tried for treason by individual states’ courts
minus-squareVientanh [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·edit-27 months agoJohn Brown was hanged, for treason against Virginia
only the federal DOJ, the president, or congress can charge someone w treason. this might be the most Colorado can do, as milquetoast as it is
edit: on further investigation, some states do have laws against treason and people have been tried for treason by individual states’ courts
John Brown was hanged, for treason against Virginia