@StripedCat: “So Trump and Tucker are supporting the authoritarian tyrant. How un-American.”
The US Constitution states, “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” It does not, however, define “Enemies”.
I understand that the Supreme Court has (previously) ruled that only nations against which our Congress has declared war qualify as “Enemies”. (So apparently non-“nations” such as ISIS cannot qualify?)
So Trump and others currently cheering for Putin apparently can’t (currently) be charged with “treason”. (“Sedition” is an independent charge, about which I won’t go into detail right here.) But if this Ukrainian conflict escalates to the point where we do declare war on Russia, all that would change.
I’m not proposing that we declare war on Russia, since there are other, extremely serious consequences of such an act. But I’m fairly certain that the cheer-the-dictators “conservatives” have not considered all the potential consequences if that became necessary.
(Interestingly enough, it would seem that even if Russia declared war on us, they wouldn’t be considered an “Enemy” under the earlier Supreme Court ruling unless and until we returned the favor.)
@StripedCat: “So Trump and Tucker are supporting the authoritarian tyrant. How un-American.”
The US Constitution states, “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” It does not, however, define “Enemies”.
I understand that the Supreme Court has (previously) ruled that only nations against which our Congress has declared war qualify as “Enemies”. (So apparently non-“nations” such as ISIS cannot qualify?)
So Trump and others currently cheering for Putin apparently can’t (currently) be charged with “treason”. (“Sedition” is an independent charge, about which I won’t go into detail right here.) But if this Ukrainian conflict escalates to the point where we do declare war on Russia, all that would change.
I’m not proposing that we declare war on Russia, since there are other, extremely serious consequences of such an act. But I’m fairly certain that the cheer-the-dictators “conservatives” have not considered all the potential consequences if that became necessary.
(Interestingly enough, it would seem that even if Russia declared war on us, they wouldn’t be considered an “Enemy” under the earlier Supreme Court ruling unless and until we returned the favor.)