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Keith Olbermann

Effete Snob

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8. There hasn't been a prosecution since then either

Reply to Zen Democrat (Reply #6)

Wed Feb 23, 2022, 01:06 PM

Feb 2022

No, it's not defunct. The circumstances simply have not been relevant.

As noted in passing in the seditious conspiracy prosecutions of the Puerto Ricans who shot up Congress previously, "treason" (with which they were not charged) is very narrowly defined.

And whatever various changes there have been, it really doesn't matter, since statutes are pretty simple to update, and the last amendment to 18 U.S. Code § 2381 was in 1994.

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