Political Prosecutions
The beltway certainly has their collective panties in a bunch over the “storming” of the Capitol building last week. Talk of “sedition” and “insurrection” abounds.
It used to be, before Trump, that charges of sedition and insurrection were discredited. We quote from the landmark first amendment case, New York Times v. Sullivan:
Although the Sedition Act was never tested in this Court,[16] the attack upon its validity has carried the day in the…