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• 1. Pointless gesturing, Colorado would never have gone for Trump anyway
• 2. If he engaged in insurrection, charge him. Do it. Charge him for treason in the state of Colorado. Otherwise shut up.
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
America if it was based:
It's not pointless, it's a test case.
Why would Colorado be able to charge him w treason?
States can charge individuals with it, I'd assume mostly stemming from Civil War related nonsense (like someone else pointed out, John Brown was charged with treason by Virginia, not the US at large)
Colorado's statute on Treason
I'd think a fairly easy argument to make would be inciting revolt against US Congress fits the bill of 'adheres to enemies, giving aid and comfort', but we all know libs are scared to go the whole way against their fashy friends
The accelerationist in me desperately wants to see Trump hanged in Colorado for treason.