When they say 'treason' — you know what treason is?
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When they say "treason" -- you know what treason is?
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This borders on treason, if it is not itself treason.
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So what they call treason may not be what we call treason.
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NBC and CNN are complicit in that treason by paying for this information. Treason!
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There's actually never been an execution for treason under the US Constitution—for federal treason.
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" In response, Trump appeared to accuse the anonymous writer of treason by tweeting, in all caps, "TREASON?
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"I think treason is ridiculous, and I don't think there's any possibility that this is treason," Toobin told CNN.
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" They called their approach "race treason" and on the journal used the motto "Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.
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Treason is the only crime specifically outlined in the Constitution, granting Congress the power to prohibit treason as it sees fit.
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As for Reed, Curry threatened, he would soon be arrested for treason, and Curry had already made clear what the punishment for treason was.
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I want Schiff questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason..... However, Schiff cannot be arrested for treason because he did not commit it.
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" When pressed on whether the meeting rises to the level of treason, Blumenthal said it "could rise to the level of espionage and treason.
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"As far as I'm concerned, it is treason and the penalty for treason is the firing squad — or maybe it's the electric chair now," he said.
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Carlton F.W. Larson, a constitutional law professor at the University of California at Davis who has extensively studied treason laws, has previously cast doubts on the treason angle.
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As UC Davis's Carlton Larson, one of the few experts on treason law in academia today, explained to me in 2013, this language provides for two types of treason prosecutions.
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"It's a first because it was treason," de la Peña explains, noting that at the time, the punishment for women who committed treason was being burned alive at the gallows.
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Michael Flynn, the presiding judge, Emmet Sullivan, denounced Flynn and argued that he might be guilty of treason: Judge Sullivan now asking whether Flynn could have been charged with treason (!).
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"This is moving into perjury, false statements and even potentially treason," Kaine said, when asked by CNN's Manu Raju if he thought Trump Jr.'s actions could be considered treason.
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"I want Schiff questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason," the president tweeted Sunday, and followed that up Monday with a call for Schiff's arrest, again for treason. Rep.
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Indeed, the scope of a treason prosecution is so narrow that it's hard to fathom a Trump official ever facing down a treason charge as a result of the Russia scandal.
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As UC Davis's Carlton Larson, one of the few experts on treason law in academia today, explained to me back in 2013, this language provides for two types of treason prosecutions.
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As UC Davis' Carlton Larson, one of the few experts on treason law in academia today, explained to me back in 2013, this language provides for two types of treason prosecutions.
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When Nawaz Sharif, whom Musharraf deposed in 1999, was re-elected prime minister in 2013, he initiated a treason trial against Musharraf and in 2014 he was charged with high treason.
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" He's also accused those leading the inquiry of "treason.
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" On Wednesday night, one of his tweets said "TREASON?
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" Even if there is a reluctance to bring a direct treason charge, Painter insists that "we just use other statutes because most of what is treason would have violated another statute anyway.
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JUST TREASON THEM: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says President Trump was clearly joking when he accused Democrats of treason for not cheering him at the State of the Union.
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That he was prepared to endanger an ally and benefit an enemy is not treason, as the Constitution defines treason, but it is a travesty, as any American ought to understand travesty.
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FACEBOOK'S TREASON MISTAKE: Facebook removed "treason" as an advertising tag on Wednesday after its algorithm automatically labeled 28503,22019 Russian users as interested in the category, potentially putting them at risk for government retaliation.
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And every Democrat and media pundit who accuses Trump of treason for considering taking dirt from, say, Norway in 2020 has now, by extension, accused the Obama administration of committing treason in 85033.
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"The criminal law of the Republic of Kenya stipulates that sort of process is high treason ... It is high treason of the persons involved, and any other person facilitating that process," he added.
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" Sullivan later said: "I wasn't suggesting he was committing treason.
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Yes, unbelievably, the newest charge against President Trump was treason.
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They are hopping mad and throwing about accusations of treason.
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There is a clear line between a crime and treason.
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Opposition politicians have been charged with treason many times before.
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Treason is also part of the deeper language of politics.
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"Treason is the most outrageous and miserable conduct," he said.
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On Tuesday, new treason charges were leveled against the four.
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The treason charge carries a potential sentence of 15 years.
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Put aside the word treason, which perhaps goes too far.
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That would be considered an absolute unbelievable act of treason.
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He declares the coup over and says it was treason.
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I don't believe for one minute Google is committing 'treason.
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Police, meanwhile, have arrested leaders of Islamic groups for treason.
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Fischer plays a librarian who is falsely imprisoned for treason.
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"But one thing isn't in my bag of tricks -- treason."
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Whether or not this might amount to treason, as Sen.
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Mr Besigye has been charged with treason before, in 2005.
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Ezra Pound was basically forgiven treason for his brilliant poetry.
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Gender Treason allows viewers to come to their own conclusions.
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As is said in Italian, tradutore, traditore — translation is treason.
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When they serve a foreign government, we call it treason.
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And that's not just undermining democratic institutions, that is treason.
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With the inquiry underway, could Trump be charged with treason?
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Peter Mutharika, along with 11 others, was charged with treason.
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You call this Ukraine business quote treason pure and simple.
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Mr. Musharraf has denounced the treason charges as politically motivated.
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What is the history of people being charged with treason?
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I see no reason gunpowder treason should ever be forgot!
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His push for treason proceedings against a former dictator, Gen.
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She was within her rights to execute him for treason.
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He returned to rampant slander and unsubstantiated rumors of treason.
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" He said, with a shrug: "Can we call that treason?
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Under current law, presidents can only be prosecuted for treason.
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Sullivan asked whether Flynn could have been charged with treason.
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Henry II imprisoned his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, for treason.
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" "The penalty for treason under the US code is death.
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A bit of treason is just part of the package.
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Trump, however, has cried "treason" at least two dozen times.
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But the government warned that Tuesday's events amounted to treason.
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Worse, it could potentially expose him to charges of treason.
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Martha McSally accused her of condoning treason during a debate.
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Leaving it was difficult, and dangerous too — desertion is treason.
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Treason is a federal crime punishable by death or imprisonment.
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Treason is the only crime specifically defined by the Constitution.
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Others agreed that the treason charge against Fernandez appeared questionable.
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He then threatens to sue whistleblower's lawyer "for treason." pic.twitter.
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Trump has suggested that the author's actions amount to treason.
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She was convicted for violating the Espionage Act, not treason.
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Dissent was linked with treason and disgracefulness to the leaders.
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And on Monday, Press Secretary Sanders said that Democrats had accused Trump of being "an agent for a foreign government," the equivalent of treason, and added that treason is punishable by the death penalty.
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So does it make sense to even be talking about treason at this point—how much bearing do anti-treason laws have on the kind of offenses we seem to be learning about here?
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Is that not treason, when you work against your own government?
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CNN host Fareed Zakaria wasn't satisfied with "treason" as a descriptor.
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PIRRO: But they never said he should be charged with treason.
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Many Americans on the right were calling that treasonous or treason.
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Technically, this is treason — Jaime acted in defiance of his queen.
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Early Wednesday evening, the president issued the following official statement: TREASON?
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EIC might not be too far off with its treason theory.
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But I don&apost know whether or not he committed treason.
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Kind of like: Treason never prospers, and what is the reason?
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"He probably saw this as a treason," Mr. Büsser said ruefully.
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Russian authorities arrested Dokuchaev last December and charged him with treason.
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He's been in pretrial detention since January 2017, facing treason charges.
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Two centuries later Napoleon prohibited it as an act of treason.
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WATTERS: And also, never charged with treason or espionage or collusion.
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CNRP leader Kem Sokha was jailed on treason charges in September.
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And moreover, the media is casting the strange narrative of treason.
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No longer is it treason for him to accept a gift.
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The newspapers are talking of nothing but treason, espionage, investigations, protests.
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The party's last leader remains under house arrest on treason charges.
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Despite the formidable title, such conspiracy is not equivalent to treason.
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He later clarified he was not suggesting that Flynn committed treason.
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Field was no Kim Philby; he tried to parse his treason.
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He accused Mr. Santos of treason for abandoning his security policy.
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They could constitute treason even if they were only partly true.
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They will pay a heavy price for their treason to Turkey.
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Had Mueller's team considered charging Flynn with other crimes, including treason?
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Sullivan also reversed course on questions he had asked regarding treason.
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In May 2011, however, Amiri was arrested and tried for treason.
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The protester was heard shouting "Trump is treason" before being arrested.
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TIMPF: I still think that treason went a lot too far.
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" Scientology labels a similar, early stage in its moral hierarchy "treason.
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This is moving into perjury, false statements, and even potentially treason.
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Clinton should face a firing squad to be shot for treason.
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On top of that, his native country accused him of treason.
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Our president would be wise to end his talk of treason.
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I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot!
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If he finds high crimes or treason, then impeachment is warranted.
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Separately, two students were arrested in Jakarta and charged for treason.
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But accusing the president's eldest son of treason crossed the line.
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Treason is an accusation without relevant modern precedent in our country.
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As such, any accusations that Trump committed treason are completely baseless.
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He hired Varys to root out others he suspected of treason.
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Until then I decline, and if that's treason, I plead guilty.
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He was executed on the king's orders for treason and heresy.
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If he didn't obtain one, his past treason would be exposed.
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Adam Schiff broke the law and even suggesting he committed treason.
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He also said publishing it might be an act of treason.
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If this means charging opposition leaders with treason, so be it.
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But this type of self-reflection is apparently tantamount to treason.
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The treason case against Mr. Musharraf was groundbreaking in many ways.
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In recent days, he has appeared obsessed with treason and spying.
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That prompted President Tayyip Erdogan to accuse the union of treason.
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Accusations of treason have been hurled at members of both parties.
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The treason case against Musharraf started in 2013, and on Jan.
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United States, in which Anthony Cramer, an American man who met with Nazi agents in the US, saw his treason conviction overturned on the grounds that merely meeting the enemy isn't enough to count as treason.
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The president has called them "wilful partners in treason against the nation".
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Instead, if you didn't like what he said, it was suddenly treason.
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Top Houthi officials called it high treason backed by their Saudi enemies.
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Trump's casual use of the word "treason" is a relatively new development.
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On its Twitter account, the high command accused the general of treason.
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That is the stuff not only of treason, but also of war.
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"So far all you've offered me is treason and coconuts," Serena drawls.
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" She noted that her own statement said Trump's conduct "borders on treason.
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"A breach of that oath can also be treason?" the man suggested.
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Prosecutors have charged him with treason, conspiracy, and concealing arms and explosives.
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"Defaming them, legally, for me now equals treason," Mr Sisi said recently.
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The thing is, we lost and if you don't comply it's treason.
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He was found guilty of mutiny, treason and corruption in August 1996.
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Collusion, if found and proven, could be treason or another federal crime.
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The intervening months would be filled with outrage and talk of treason.
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Advocacy of independence, once considered treason, has become an acceptable political stance.
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Musharraf pleaded not guilty to five counts of treason in April 2014.
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Tim Kaine, to speculate whether Trump Jr.'s behavior amounts to treason.
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Claudia thinks treason is in season in Washington D.C.and it's pretty extreme.
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The committee members should be hanged for treason, he wrote in March.
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The Constitution provides criteria for impeachment; treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Traitor: A person who commits treason by betraying his or her country.
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"Accusing the press of treason is dangerous," the Times's communications account tweeted.
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Some former senior intelligence officials said Mr. Trump's comments bordered on treason.
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And, like treason, a high crime and misdemeanor is grounds for impeachment.
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In September, opposition leader Kem Sokha was arrested on charges of treason.
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The Constitution narrowly defines treason and establishes a high bar for conviction.
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The lady should be getting the electric chair, being charged with treason.
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" The judge also asked prosecutors if Flynn could be charged with "treason.
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Among Mr. Trump's critics, even the word "treason" is not too strong.
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Like, treason is not typically prosecuted in a call-and-response fashion.
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FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are not guilty of treason.
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If Obama were making this delivery today, Republicans would call it treason.
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Ms. Aksener accused Mr. Erdogan of treason for his neglect of agriculture.
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One of Mr. Kim's uncles, Jang Song-thaek, was convicted of treason.
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But to accuse someone of being a traitor — of treason — is big.
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Democrats will bellow of scandal, treason, bribery, and high crimes and misdemeanors.
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He was arrested four months ago in Russia on charges of treason.
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The Ukrainian prosecutor general has started a case of treason against him.
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Both have been summoned on charges of treason relating to the article.
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"This is treason," Trump said, according to the report about Woodward's book.
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Does he know there are differences among treason, desertion and going AWOL?
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Trump mused on Twitter that Schiff should maybe be investigated for treason.
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Trump has accused those he views as political adversaries of treason before.
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I want Schiff questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason..... Rep.
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Treason The term refers to an act of betrayal against one's country.
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Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution lays out the definition of treason used in US criminal prosecutions: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort I looked into this issue a few years ago when Edward Snowden faced accusations of treason for disclosing highly-classified NSA surveillance programs.
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" He went on in the email to outline the Constitution's reference to treason and Congress' power to enforce punishment, finally stating: "Anyone who commits treason against the United States should be tried to the full extent of the law.
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Government officials are even contemplating whether to reinstate the death penalty for treason.
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And we have to get back to the point of treason as well.
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DERSHOWITZ: But treason is not something that can be used against the president.
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Also, didn't the Post think leaking internal government documents was treason or something?
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Trump attacked the Times report as "a virtual act of Treason" on Twitter.
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On March 28th the treason case was assigned to a Kiev district court.
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Treason cases are often based on flimsy evidence and rarely lead to convictions.
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In some countries a treason charge makes it impossible to apply for bail.
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" The Republican president later fired off a one-word message on Twitter: "TREASON?
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Trump as he arrives at Senate GOP luncheon, yelling "Trump is treason!" pic.twitter.
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Though he was released after two weeks, treason charges still hang over him.
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Conservative commentators responded by accusing the Ukrainian-born officer of treason and espionage.
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He was charged with treason and faces up to 250 years in prison.
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But Nissan executives employed "plot and treason" to uproot those plans, Ghosn said.
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Now he's Trump's favorite target and some Republicans say he's guilty of treason.
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His successor, Kem Sokha, was arrested last month on trumped-up treason charges.
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Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason.
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In 2019, her love of Rochester is so shocking it borders on treason.
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"If they ever come back, they'll all be tried for treason," Alex said.
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Ocalan has been in jail in Turkey since 1999 on a treason conviction.
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It might be seen as treason to say it, but it's the truth.
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According to the booklet, heinous crimes include murder, rape, human trafficking and treason.
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Moreover, no American citizen has been executed for treason against the United States.
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Russia. One of the explicit grounds for impeachment under the Constitution is treason.
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"He has been charged with treason," Papua police spokesman Ahmad Musthofa Kamal said.
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He added that officials had also been asked to consider updating treason laws.
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"When do the trials for treason begin?" read a slogan on the graphic.
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This approach has signaled admirers to view even reasonable dissent as racial treason.
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There is also an investigation in Ukraine to determine if he committed treason.
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Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, were guilty of treason.
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Back when it was disqualifying for an American politician to flirt with treason.
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Federal prosecutors have only indicted a single person for treason since the 1950s.
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Police have declared the Kimambi-led protest illegal and an act of treason.
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"This is treason, espionage at the highest level," Democratic Senator Joe Manchin complained.
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The company is removing the treason tag after it was revealed that Mail.
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Says he was just asking about treason, not saying that Flynn committed it.
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There were some treason prosecutions after World War II, in the late 40s.
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With the government, the fear was straightforward espionage: spies and blackmail and treason.
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The definition of treason is putting our enemy's interests ahead of our own.
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All three were found of guilty of high treason and sentenced to death.
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So let's set this straight: No, Donald Trump is not guilty of treason.
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If I get my hands on him, he is standing trial for treason.
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And that's what they got, with corruption, incompetence, and treason on the side.
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Rajapaksa accused Fonseka of treason, even worse corruption, and of himself murdering journalists.
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But if you accept his loose definition of treason, hasn't he committed it?
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Today Trump said, 'Everything's the opposite down there, so it's technically not treason.
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Go deeper: Trump demands to meet whistleblower and accuses Adam Schiff of "treason"
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"This is treason," he said, according to tapes made in the Oval Office.
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" — Representative Darrell Issa, July 12, 2016 "In my opinion, quite frankly, it's treason.
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Wine has been charged with treason for allegedly trying to stone Museveni's convoy.
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Neither is OK." — Dan in Atlanta "These Russian contacts could, potentially, be treason.
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" Statehood was conflated with party, writes Mickey, "and party disloyalty with state treason.
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Historically, political opponents in Indonesia used to be silenced with accusations of treason.
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" She said anti-Trump texts sent by F.B.I. agents "could well be treason.
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It is alarming on its own, given the seriousness of a treason charge.
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He also faced harsh criticism and allegations of treason by hardliners and fundamentalists.
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In official histories, the government will probably reduce Gulenists to their alleged treason.
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"@CitImmCanada denied entry b/c of convictions similar to 'treason' offense," she added.
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Many felt that sending jobs overseas, even for survival, was tantamount to treason.
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The President also called for Schiff to be questioned for fraud and treason.
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In the end — earlier this week — Musharraf was sentenced to death for treason.
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"I think loose talk about treason is strongly to be discouraged," Fidell continued.
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Individuals convicted of murder, treason and terrorism may face death sentences in Nigeria.
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He has been charged with treason for allegedly trying to stone Museveni's convoy.
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North Korean diplomats are also required to monitor one another to thwart treason.
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Mr. Ghosn blamed his arrest on "plot and treason" by executives at Nissan.
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Well mostly just, you know, what you can't say, it's not technically treason.
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Killing a swan was a crime against the crown and thus considered treason.
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"Lots of disloyal, dangerous behavior that effectively amounts to a betrayal of the country can't technically be prosecuted as treason," UC Davis professor Carlton Larson, one of the few experts on treason law in academia today, wrote in an email.
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Instead state media accused them of treason and separatism; the army is on standby.
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Mike Huckabee said Tuesday that leakers in the intelligence community are guilty of treason.
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The top people at the FBI should be tried for Treason, and Brennan, too.
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" Van Grack said, "The government has no reason to believe the defendant committed treason.
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We&aposre not really at war with Russia which is the prerequisite for treason.
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UNIDENTIFEID MALE: You had a one-word reaction to what you saw yesterday, treason.
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Authorities charged Kyagulanyi with treason last month over the suspected stoning of Museveni's convoy.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You had a one word reaction to what you saw yesterday. Treason.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don&apost think it&aposs extreme to use the treason word.
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Dokuchaev was arrested for treason in December, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.
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She's been charged with treason and could face up to 593 years in prison.
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Devin Nunes, class of '91 "Business in the front, treason in the back." pic.twitter.
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After all, treason is a crime so serious that the convicted can be executed.
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And I don't have yet enough facts and evidence to use the word 'treason.
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Two centuries later Napoleon deemed the practice an act of treason and prohibited it.
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A former CIA director went so far as to say Trump had committed treason.
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Two days before completing his sentence, this month General Baduel was charged with treason.
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I don't care if that was the standard punishment for treason against the king.
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Acosta was detained on June 21 and charged with treason and conspiring to rebel.
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It was treason ... We can never allow these treasonous acts happen to another president.
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And it's called politics, but this is dirty politics and this is actually treason.
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Kizza Besigye, Uganda's main opposition leader, was at one point was charged with treason.
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He was then charged with treason in a civilian court before being granted bail.
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The secret meetings, he in heavy disguise, in the years of his treason trial.
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Why it matters: Per McClatchy, some in Congress have privately accused Flynn of treason.
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At one point, Manning even faced calls for her execution for reasons of treason.
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He was stripped of his seat in the Ukrainian parliament and charged with treason.
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"The act of secret collusion with foreigners is an act of treason," it added.
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Raza is now being held in a so-called high treason jail in Sialkot.
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In February, he wrote that it was a "myth" that aiding Russia is treason.
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Maybe treason can be averted if the five episodes after this will improve greatly.
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The party was banned after its leader, Kem Sokha, was arrested for alleged treason.
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Confirming an Obama nominee would be seen by many conservatives as close to treason.
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Rather, it captures the amorality that leads people to become entangled in mercenary treason.
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In Wright's history, Mountbatten dismissed the idea as treason and did not act further.
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Journalists who dare cover any of this are being charged with sedition and treason.
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" Saturday night and called the Times' publication of it "a virtual act of Treason.
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He has since faced a battery of court cases, including a charge of treason.
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Terry McAuliffe suggests special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation could reveal a stark conclusion: treason.
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Narrator: Treason is primarily associated with espionage cases, and convictions are rare in America.
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I don't think there's any evidence that what Donald Trump did here is treason.
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Suspecting an antirevolutionary plot, Fidel Castro had Mr. Matos arrested and charged with treason.
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Prosecutors have arrested six people who face charges of treason, attempted murder and terrorism.
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The treason and sedition provisions "predated a great deal of human rights," she said.
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The CNRP was banned after its leader, Kem Sokha, was arrested for alleged treason.
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On Twitter, angry Palestinians used Arabic hashtags that translate to #Treason, #CondolenceForTheKiller and #AbbasDoesNotRepresentMe.
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President Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly railed against high interest rates, equating them with treason.
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Back then, Trump suggested that the article was "treason" and called the author "gutless."
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Burr raised an army in the West and should have been prosecuted for treason.
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The accusation against him was treason, according to the person familiar with the arrest.
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Treason charges have been lodged against Museveni's political opponents on a number of occasions.
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Even if you said treason to a parrot, the bird would be like, 'Bawk!
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The Enquirer spread false stories about Hillary Clinton — illnesses concealed, child prostitution, bribery, treason.
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An early proposal would have restricted it to acts of "treason and bribery" only.
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Later, he even raised and then dropped the prospect of a case for treason.
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What the FBI did in investigating Trump's campaign in 2016 was not, however, treason.
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It's hard today to understand the danger treason posed to the nation's early existence.
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The singer, now facing treason charges, was taken into military detention following his arrest.
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Pervez Musharraf in absentia on Tuesday to death for high treason, the BBC reports.
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Even when they leave, as I did, accusations of treason and collaboration follow them.
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"Treason" is a word the president has increasingly used when talking about his critics.
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Pakistani officials have accused Ms. Ismail of sedition, inciting treason and defaming state institutions.
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The treason charge is perhaps the most serious a commander in chief can make.
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He could expect arrest on charges of treason if he ever made it home.
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Trump believes them to be spies, guilty of treason and perhaps deserving of execution.
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But I think to charge them with treason is maybe a bit too much.
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Wine appeared before the Gulu High Court Monday alongside 11 others charged with treason.
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Rather, the crucial question is as monumental as it is simple: Was there treason?
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Donald Trump spent the weekend throwing the word 'treason' at elected congressmen like Rep.
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I'm not saying — it could be considered by some a borderline treason-type situation.
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If it's the latter, Trump is accusing Obama of treason, of supporting America's enemies.
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" Daria Kaleniuk, the center's director, said she believed that Lutsenko had committed "state treason.
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Treason is a charge where a high and specific evidentiary standard must be proven.
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And, if a president commits treason or bribery, Congress can impeach him or her.
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This hardly needs to be said, but Adam Schiff is not guilty of treason.
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Nobody has been convicted of treason in the US in more than 60 years.
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It's worth remembering that unlike "high crimes and misdemeanors," treason is a capital offense.
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If convicted of treason, Mr. Kem Sokha faces up to 30 years in prison.
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" They pointed to treason and bribery as the two potential charges prompting impeachment "because they include conduct undertaken not in the 'faithful execution' of public office that the Constitution requires, but instead for personal gain (bribery) or to benefit a foreign enemy (treason).
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And when the president accuses you of treason by name, despite the fact that I know there's no fathomable way that I have committed any crime at all, let alone treason, he's still somebody in a position to actually do something about that.
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And when the President accuses you of treason by name, despite the fact that I know there's no fathomable way that I have committed any crime at all, let alone treason, he's still somebody in a position to actually do something about that.
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President Tayyip Erdogan, who favours consumption-led growth, has equated high borrowing costs with treason.
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Spying for Israel is perhaps the most shameful act of treason a Palestinian can commit.
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Is that to say you consider sharing this information with Lavrov an act of treason?
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Born into the Greek royal family, Prince Philip's father was accused of treason and exiled.
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Oleg, an idealist, committed treason in season four to protect the world from biological warfare.
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Trump's advisor on veterans' issues, Al Baldasaro, said Hillary Clinton should be shot for treason.
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After 20 days, a military court charged him with treason, rebellion and violating military decorum.
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Its leader Kem Sokha, jailed on treason charges last September, remains in pre-trial detention.
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"He should resign, and some people even say it was treason," Trump added of Schiff.
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"No to the conference of treason, no to the conference of shame" read one banner.
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" Eventually, the 11-delegate committee charged with the section offered the narrower "Treason, or bribery.
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To residents, it says that using more than 50 litres per day is practically treason.
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In Asia's fourth-largest economy, Presidents can't be charged with crimes except insurrection or treason.
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"So there's no punishment for treason and no reward for loyalty" is a devastating line.
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A lightly edited transcript, interspersed with excerpts from Rabassa's memoir If This Be Treason, follows.
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In July, Trump's "veteran adviser," Al Baldasaro, called for Clinton to be shot for treason.
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The real story is the witch hunt (you know, the hunt for treason and collusion).
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Facts First: Nothing about the Russia investigation comes close to meeting the definition of treason.
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Defence lawyer Keith Mweemba said on Wednesday that the treason charge was defective in law.
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CNRP leader Kem Sokha was arrested in September for alleged treason, an accusation he denied.
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January 2018 Trump called the texts evidence of "treason" in a Wall Street Journal interview.
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Naturally, you ought to to be proven for treason, you ought to go to court.
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In September, CNRP leader Kem Sokha was arrested in Phnom Penh and charged with treason.
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That's under the Espionage Act, that is a major felony, and that is essentially treason.
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He's acquitted of treason and sent to Bedlam, which is a pretty awful sentence anyway.
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Tim Kaine said Trump Jr. may have committed "treason" -- though many legal experts would disagree.
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The minister of security said Warsame resisted arrest and he would be charged with treason.
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That is an action equal to treason, which is punishable by death in this country.
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Under this, the president can be impeached "for high treason or attacks against the constitution".
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Eight of the 11 are accused of treason and three of spreading hate speech online.
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The Turkish state and army are beyond reproach; suggestions to the contrary border on treason.
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Treason In the chorus of criminal charges following the disclosure of the Russia meeting, Sen.
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Several commenters accused Mr. Trump of sedition or treason and demanded that he be punished.
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Does a little face-lift along the way constitute treason, or just a reasonable accommodation?
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It ended with the acquittals of Mandela and his co-accused on charges of treason.
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It is ludicrous to trivialize treason and sedition as if they were mere political dissent.
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"If we find that any US citizen was involved in this, it's treason," he said.
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Back in July, one of Trump's advisors called for Clinton to be executed for treason.
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"Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason," he added.
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But in theory treason is a capital offense that could come into play here, right?
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The dining room, now silent, throbbed slightly, the air thick with gunpowder, treason, and plot.
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That's because treason is actually a very narrowly defined crime that's awfully hard to commit.
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Under the Pakistani Constitution, inciting the military to take over can lead to treason charges.
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One newspaper said they could face as much as 20 years in prison for treason.
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Captain Acosta was detained on June 21 and charged with treason and conspiring to rebel.
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"No to the conference of treason, no to the conference of shame," read one banner.
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More could come out later, but this is what we know now. Treason. Espionage. Collusion.
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If you or I did what Trump just did we would be charged with treason.
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Now, Leston awaits verdict on whether he is guilty of these crimes of ass treason.
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He is an absconder in multiple court cases, some involving charges of murder and treason.
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Franklin Pierce, another former president, was a Southern sympathizer and sometimes accused informally of treason.
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"Deport these so-called Americans who preach treason," he told an audience in Kansas City.
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Yet Trump "made it sound — dangerously — like treason," writes The New Yorker's Amy Davidson Sorkin.
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"The above act of this secret conspiracy is treason," the government said in a statement.
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"I want Schiff questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason," he wrote on Twitter.
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She died seven days after giving birth; Seymour was executed for treason six months later.
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We need to stop calling them "traitors" because treason implies violating an oath of loyalty.
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In one tweet targeting Schiff, Trump wondered whether the congressman should be arrested for treason.
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He was charged with treason, money laundering and cyberstalking the President, but denies all charges.
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They also now include the possibility of treason, obstruction of justice and making false statements.
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" So they crafted a clause empowering Congress to impeach a president "for treason, or bribery.
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Condemn Trump enemies in the most incendiary and exaggerated language possible (treason, traitors, coup, etc.).
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Ugandan pop star turned lawmaker, Bobi Wine, who challenged Museveni is currently facing treason charges.
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Bush's former White House ethics lawyer, Richard Painter, said the meeting might even constitute treason.
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In the 1860s, 14 senators were expelled due to their treason in aiding the Confederacy.
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Serjeant, a former air cadet, was jailed for five years under the 1842 Treason Act.
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Dokuchayev and three others were arrested on charges of treason in Moscow in late 2016.
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The fact is, Trump can pardon any federal crime, ranging from moon-shining to treason.
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"You're asking a foreigner to commit treason and betray his or her country," said Matthews.
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When they talk about President Trump, why are so many Democratic politicians talking about treason?
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There is no evidence of anything anyone but the most cloistered partisan could call treason.
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Pakistan's army lashes out as a court rules that Pervez Musharraf should hang for treason.
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And when the president accuses you of treason by name, despite the fact that I know there&aposs no fathomable way that I have committed any crime at all, let alone treason, he&aposs still somebody in a position to actually do something about that.
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" [W]hen the president accuses you of treason by name, despite the fact that I know there's no fathomable way that I have committed any crime at all, let alone treason, he's still somebody in a position to actually do something about that," she said.
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"When the president accuses you of treason by name, despite the fact that I know there's no fathomable way that I have committed any crime at all, let alone treason, he's still somebody in a position to actually do something about that," Ms. Page said.
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Opposition to the president based upon gratuitous definitions of treason cannot realistically be separated from opposition to the millions of fellow citizens who voted for him, who in turn see the cry of treason as a self-serving attack on them and their choices.
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Sergei Skripal, who was recruited by Britain's MI6, was arrested for treason in Moscow in 2004.
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In Beijing, Hong Kong's political mood is interpreted as rank ingratitude at best, treason at worst.
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It was the perfect visual illustration of his high treason — except that it had been Photoshopped.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The definition is the first word is treason, bribery, and high crimes and misdemeanors.
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ALAN DERSHOWITZ, PROFESSOR, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL: Treason is the only crime defined specifically in the Constitution.
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" McSally, a former Air Force fighter pilot, accused Sinema of saying "it's OK to commit treason.
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The President, currently undergoing an impeachment trial for bribery and treason allegations, has yet to comment.
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" The president tweeted on July 16, addressing a suggestion that it "should be investigated for treason.
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Police said they had held or interrogated at least three leading opposition figures for suspected treason.
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In the United States, our laws deal with treason in different ways depending on the circumstances.
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I am one of many who believe Bergdahl was guilty of the higher crime of treason.
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Trade unionists accuse it of "treason" for imposing a deregulation of the labour market in 2016.
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In a tweet, Trump called the Russia report a "virtual act of treason" by the Times.
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Trump is flirting with treason, encouraging, perhaps even conspiring, with a foe of the United States.
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"There is one 'trick' that is not in my bag and that is treason," he said.
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Shortly after last year's speech the president accused Democrats of "treason" for failing to applaud him.
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That came to an end in "Chloramphenicol," when she was abruptly put to death for treason.
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" On words like "treason" and "perjury" being thrown around: "I think those new words are ridiculous.
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If I had committed treason or raped an entire village, I wouldn't get this much coverage.
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"It's called the treason clause, and it's right there in front of your face!" he bellows.
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The number of federal indictments for treason since the Constitution's inception is only in the thirties.
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But as Vox points out, neither the op-ed writer nor Trump is guilty of treason.
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Well, Mantel hasn't finished her trilogy yet, but here's a spoiler: Cromwell gets executed for treason.
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It's also clear that Trump thought he had a winning issue in condemning Manning's alleged treason.
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Anger, denouncements, and accusations of high treason characterized the wide-reaching response on the American side.
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"Fourteen years is, you know, violent felonies and treason," Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin told CNN.
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Article I states that a President can also be impeached and removed for treason and bribery.
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An employee of the antivirus company Kaspersky Lab has been arrested in Russia, reportedly for treason.
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Conservatives are guilty of treachery and treason against the people of the United States of America.
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Clinton's emails "verbal treason" and said Mr. Trump's "diarrhea of the mouth" would be his undoing.
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In the first coup of 1960, the military tried the prime minister and president for treason.
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The only other expelled Senator was William Blunt from Tennessee way back in 1797 for treason.
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Seditious conspiracy is derived from treason, the only federal crime to be defined by the Constitution.
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This week's episode, "Treason," makes the most of the opposing forces being exerted on the show.
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The crime of treason is punishable by 10 to 25 years in prison, Argentina's maximum sentence.
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In September Sowore pleaded not guilty to charges of treason, money laundering and harassing the president.
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Instead, he wound up ensnared in various court cases, the most potent being the treason case.
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During the king's reign, anyone that displayed any loyalty to Rome could be tried for treason.
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" One recent post, with an image depicting nooses, read: "Noose flash: Treason still punishable by death.
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Everything he did, even his final act of treason, was for the good of the people.
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In 1941, he was jailed for treason and died in a Soviet prison later that year.
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For an Argentine citizen to commit treason, the country must be in a state of war.
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This was far from the first time Trump has accused his perceived political enemies of treason.
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If the allegations of treason stick, Prince Ahmed and MBN could face lifetime imprisonment or execution.
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I've always considered the treason of Arnold one of the most dramatic stories in American history.
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He lashed out anew at his attorney general, shouted "TREASON" and demanded investigations of his detractors.
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He's the Tea Party favorite who's called for Justice Department officials to be tried for treason.
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"He said it was equal to treason," Mr. Roldugin told Mr. Putin's biographer, Steven Lee Myers.
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Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and the lead impeachment manager, of treason.
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Adam Schiff, the Democratic congressman who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, might be tried for treason.
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Any questioning or disagreement is not only plain wrong or agenda-driven but equivalent to treason.
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After Trump's treason remark, regular leaders were, for the umpteenth time, forced to consider their options.
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He criticized the Turkish state for intimidating media, curtailing Internet freedom and accusing academics of treason.
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The Ukrainian government was livid, and prosecutors in Kiev are investigating whether Mr. Artemenko committed treason.
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Pakistan: Pervez Musharraf, the country's former military dictator, was sentenced to death in a treason case.
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Under Pakistan's constitution, high treason is a crime that carries the death penalty or life imprisonment.
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Trump himself has accused the whistleblower of espionage and treason, crimes that are punishable by death.
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He was charged with treason, money laundering and cyberstalking the President, but denies all the charges.
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"There's a smell of treason in the air," Douglas Brinkley, the historian, told The Washington Post.
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"Throwing the word 'treason' around is as dangerous as throwing the word 'impeachment' around," he said.
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Danielle Stella, a Republican, suggested on Twitter that Ms. Omar be tried for treason and hanged.
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In a speech, Trump suggested the Democrats not clapping for his address were guilty of treason.
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It would be considered treason and they'd be in jail for the rest of their lives.
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In the case of Schiff, the lack of any grounds for a treason charge is clear.
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That constitutional provision does, however, include an exception for treason, which someone must have told Trump.
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If treason and stupidity are not the answers to those questions, what then is our strategy?
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It would unleash a president who regularly accuses leading political opponents of treason, a capital offense.
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Now he faces a warrant for his arrest there for deserting his military post and treason.
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The president said Schiff&aposs actions made him guilty of treason, which is punishable by death.
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"Americans are sick of your impeachment sham, they're sick of the Democrat treason," the demonstrator yelled.
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His one-word "TREASON?" tweet was "like a wounded king's furious wail," CNN's Stephen Collinson wrote.
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Somewhere along the line, "resistance" became "Treason!" and Democrats embraced the paranoid style in American politics.
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The fate of Alfred Dreyfus, a loyal French officer falsely convicted of treason, was always possible.
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Prosecutors pointed to a letter Mr. Yanukovych sent to Mr. Putin as an indication of treason.
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"Today is the day of the fall of the conspiracy of betrayal and treason," he said.
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Under Pakistan's constitution, high treason is a crime that carries the death penalty or life imprisonment.
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He said that his reference to treason was aimed at Mr. Manafort, not the president's son.
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Such a move requires an act of will upon the part of the person, such as treason.
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Jared Kushner gets a WH job which he is utterly unqualified for while being investigated for treason.
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By vouching for her, risking treason, he at least gives Cersei a little bit of a buffer.
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Crimes could fall under three broad categories: homicide offenses, espionage and treason, and non-homicidal narcotics offenses.
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President Trump is now accusing news outlets of "treason" when he doesn't like the stories they publish.
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It's hard to prove treason, but Trump's behavior for years, in multiple ways, has absolutely compromised him.
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Erdogan has accused the body of treason and prosecutors last month detained 11 of its senior members.
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In this case, however, the tag "treason" may have put users under the threat of government intervention.
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The actions of Pelosi and Schiff do not come close to meeting the Constitution's definition of treason.
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Protest looks like rebellion and opposition like treason because the state cannot imagine it any other way.
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Well, [we have an] understanding of the meaning of the word "treason" as betraying your own country.
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"We thought we were screwed, like we broke copyright laws or committed treason or something," they said.
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Hakainde Hichilema, the leader of the main opposition party in Zambia, was arrested on charges of treason.
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Treason -- such as that implied by Erdogan's demand for Gulen's extradition -- does not appear in the treaty.
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Penned by a hard-line Christian faction, it accused supporters of the European Union of "spiritual treason".
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Kyagulanyi, Zaake and dozens of their supporters were charged with treason for their roles in the incident.
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There have been just 30 treason trials in the U.S. since 1789, according to the Constitution Center.
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None of those actions would amount to treason in the narrow sense that our Constitution defines it.
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Under the South Korean Constitution, the president is immune from criminal prosecution except for insurrection or treason.
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As it is, the leader of the CNRP, Kem Sokha, is in jail, on charges of treason.
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"Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel believes Google should be investigated for treason," Trump said in a tweet.
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Pizarro was accused of treason by the top court in May along with three other opposition lawmakers.
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These activities have annoyed President Muhammadu Buhari, who has publicly backed Mr. Kanu's ongoing trial for treason.
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Kem Sokha has been charged with treason, accused of colluding with Americans to overthrow the Cambodian government.
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"This is not treason to the country, but it's protecting the future of our kids," he said.
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Pretty much like any other affair coming to an end, except for the treason and dead bodies.
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" Another says "we the people will make sure" that I die "for supporting an act of treason.
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At any rate, the government suddenly sounds quite complimentary about the man it is trying for treason.
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"Only if the constitutional criteria are met: bribery, treason, or other high crimes and misdemeanors," he replied.
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Gender Treason is giving [those in Kansas City] an opportunity to be heard on the same platform.
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To Democrats and President Donald Trump's critics, the documents tell a story that could amount to treason.
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"The militias of treason are finished and their leader has been killed," it said in a statement.
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Can an Article of Impeachment for treason just be a video of Trump's press conference with Putin?
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At minimum they warrant equal hysteria, especially when Democrats are putting treason and impeachment on the table.
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In Odinga's western strongholds, Miguna's treason charges prompted demonstrations in which one person was killed on Tuesday.
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Charles issued a warrant for the arrest of five key members of the Commons for high treason.
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The picture was taken in 21965 after 224 members of the Congress Alliance were charged with treason.
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In a series of tweets, Trump accused Schiff of treason and demanded to meet with his accuser.
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Erdogan has repeatedly railed against the high domestic cost of borrowing, equating high interest rates with "treason".
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Nor was it the remote possibility of treason, or solely an FBI desire to understand Russia collusion.
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Binayak Sen, a physician, was convicted of treason and sedition in 2010 and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Indeed, an American-born al-Qaeda operative was indicted for treason in 2006 for aiding the organization.
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So it's impossible to commit an act of treason in favor of Russia, at least right now?
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When it comes to treason and related crimes involving foreign governments, how much does intent matter here?
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The former butler, Anthony Senecal, 74, said in a Facebook post Obama should be hanged for treason.
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Senior government officials have warned disruptions or bids to delegitimize the poll result could amount to treason.
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I can't believe The New York Times had an op-ed yesterday in which treason was mentioned.
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It also questioned his sexuality, his mental health and whether he had committed treason in North Vietnam.
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The Constitution specifies two specific crimes — treason and bribery — that could merit impeachment and removal from office.
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He said the British government had threatened to try him for treason if he published the book.
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Among some of Mr. Trump's critics, including some Republicans, even the word "treason" is not too strong.
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But the government warned the inauguration amounted to treason -- an offense punishable by death under Kenyan law.
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"This is a country that, many people forget, is born from an act of treason," he said.
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The Founders feared the crime of treason and a specific danger in the impeachment process: political polarization.
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This May, Trump accused FBI officials who investigated possible links between his campaign and Russia of treason.
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In December 2017 two former French intelligence officials were charged with treason after allegedly spying for China.
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A drug-addled monkey led his followers into a basement and swore treason against the Pig King.
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He "should resign in disgrace, by the way," Trump added, after again suggesting "shifty" Schiff committed treason.
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Mr. Sharif was jailed after being charged with corruption and treason and was later sent into exile.
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Within months, his government announced that it was initiating a treason case against the former military dictator.
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Trump accused Schiff of committing treason for exaggerating parts of his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Musharraf had challenged the formation of the court for the sole purpose of trying him for treason.
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The court ruled that Wine and others should be tried in a civil court for treason instead.
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When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers.
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Separately, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that a senior government official had been arrested on treason charges.
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The president claimed that Adam Schiff, the House Intelligence Committee chairman, committed treason and should be arrested.
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Miguna Miguna, another top opposition figure, was deported to Canada on Tuesday after being charged with treason.
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For the purposes of this inquiry, the report defines treason, bribery, high crimes, and misdemeanors in turn.
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If this is not treason then is it recklessness, or stupidity that leads to such misconceived policies?
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But some politicians and commentators are raising the possibility that he committed an even graver offense: treason.
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But that doesn't make it treason, and it's irresponsible to keep throwing the term around willy-nilly.
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Prosecution under the federal treason statute is ultimately unlikely because we are not at war with Russia.
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After every major protest, police arrests and charges P.T.M. activists and supporters with rioting, treason or terrorism.
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In 2013, he was executed for treason, accused of plotting a coup as his nephew consolidated power.
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On Saturday, North Korea also demanded an apology from South Korean leader Park Geun-hye for "treason".
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McCabe sues FBI, DOJ, blames Trump for his firing McCabe says it's 'absolutely' time to launch impeachment inquiry into Trump MORE is guilty of treason and should be jailed for leading a conspiracy to use the FBI to launch an attempted coup against a newly-elected U.S. president. Treason!
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"To be treason, it has to be aid to an enemy of the United States, and Russia isn't an enemy," Carlton F.W. Larson, an expert on constitutional law and treason in particular at the University of California-Davis, told me in February, when the scandal was heating up.
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"And when the president accuses you of treason by name, despite the fact that I know there&aposs no fathomable way that I have committed any crime at all, let alone treason, he&aposs still somebody in a position to actually do something about that," she told the site.
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They react like it&aposs a nine out of ten, not see comparisons, Pearl Harbor comparisons ... PIRRO: Treason.
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The CNRP was banned after its leader, Kem Sokha, was arrested for allegedly plotting treason with American help.
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With the presidency comes immunity While Park remains president she's immune from prosecution, unless for insurrection or treason.
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Ocalan, in jail since 1999 for treason, negotiated the last ceasefire but was sidelined before the violence reignited.
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Yet moments after leaving the interview, Ukrainian prosecutors announced he would be investigated for "treason" over the deal.
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Convictions for crimes such as treason, murder and robbery with violence can carry the death sentence in Kenya.
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The Constitution also has a specific definition of treason that Schiff's comments do not come close to satisfying.
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The use of the term treason could risk alienating swing voters who don't appreciate over-the-top rhetoric.
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The legal definition of treason is providing "aid and comfort" to enemies of the U.S., a high crime.
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In Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe treason charges were slapped on opposition figures in the run-up to elections.
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And if I am president and we get our hands on him, he is standing trial for treason.
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Cersei tells him he can't go North to help fight the White Walkers, because she'll consider it treason.
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As the good, law-abiding citizen he has always been, Jon considers it treason to think anything different.
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In Togo, Ms Nabourema is now wanted on charges of terrorism, treason and intent to destabilise the nation.
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Along with Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) agents Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitry Dokuchayev, Stoyanov was charged with treason.
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Police in Cambodia arrested Kem Sokha, the leader of the main opposition party, on spurious charges of treason.
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Also: The restoration of voting rights to felons does not apply if you have been convicted of treason.
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GORKA: If this had happened in the 1950s, there would be people up on treason charges right now.
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And that's what's happening right now because -- without the "treason" word, I guess -- but that's what's happening now.
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It was treason and it should never be allowed to happen to another President again ever, ever, ever.
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That, in turn, would make them easy targets once the crown got around to punishing them for treason.
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Sansa found him guilty of murder and treason, and Arya (Maisie Williams) executed him with his own dagger.
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Despite accusations of treason aimed at the group, its mere existence attests to the strength of Israeli democracy.
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" Duke, who is publicly supporting Trump, has since declared that voting against Trump is "treason to your heritage.
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The treason might prove to be greater than we now suspect: a further undermining of political reality itself.
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If Bernie Sanders were the Democratic nominee, he'd be delegitimized as a socialist and a committer of treason.
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And yesterday in the White House a reporter noted that the punishment for treason includes the death penalty.
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He was convicted of treason, mutiny and corruption and sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison.
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One party leader already was in exile and the other in jail awaiting trial on the treason charge.
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"I think what he did is a long way from treason, bribery, high crimes, and misdemeanors," Alexander said.
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Musharraf was granted bail in the Bhutto assassination and treason cases and remains free, mostly living in Pakistan.
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The package would introduce criminal liability for the president, who previously was immune from all charges except treason.
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The treason for gold could be Illyrio or Varys or the Golden Company (check out our theory here)?
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Speaking to his group in parliament, he also said creating an atmosphere for snap elections amounted to "treason".
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Asserting that Trump's actions border on treason is akin to insisting that the United States borders on Myanmar.
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He suggested that all those who might have spoken to the whistleblower about their concerns engaged in treason.
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When the French officer Alfred Dreyfus was accused of treason in 1894, public opinion was sundered in half.
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So things that are comparable to bribery, increasing bribery, treason, which are mentioned, and then things like that.
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McSally attacked Sinema for the comment during a debate last week, calling it "treason" and demanding an apology.
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The Constitution specifies "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors," not partisan dissatisfaction with an agency head.
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Where others were arguing election fraud, Kaine declared that the case has moved to a potential treason charge.
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Like treason, the effort to construe this meeting as espionage would rip the crime from its statutory roots.
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Trump has also suggested the whistleblower and the officials they learned their information from are guilty of treason.
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"The criminal law of the Republic of Kenya stipulates that sort of process is high treason," he said.
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Then Morsi was placed inside a cage in a courtroom, where he was tried for murder and treason.
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" A traitor, on the other hand, is "A person who commits treason by betraying his or her country.
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How has it that patriotism has turned into defending the government, and criticizing it is interpreted as treason?
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But as a legal matter, "leaking" information to the press is rarely a crime, and is never treason.
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The US Constitution states that a sitting president can be impeached for treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors.
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A vote for anyone but Trump, as the former Klansman David Duke says, is "treason" to your heritage.
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Words matter, which is why I refrain from using words like "treason" on the matter of Donald Trump.
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You could do far more generous things to Russia than have been alleged, and it wouldn't be treason.
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This isn't the treason charge Offred fears—she could easily "Yes, Aunt Lydia" her way out of it.
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The CNRP's leader, Kem Sokha, was arrested in September on charges of treason and is still behind bars.
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Like the United States, Bangladesh allows the death penalty for high crimes like treason, terrorism and federal murder.
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Trump accused the person of treason and the White House engaged in a furious hunt for the leaker.
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In Malaysia, the death penalty is mandatory for murder, drug trafficking, treason and waging war against the king.
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Its leaders equated the protests against the citizenship law with treason and called for the murder of protesters.
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Despite the furious intervention of Paulina, his warped will cannot be diverted: Hermione must be tried for treason.
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At best, he belongs in a brig; it would not be completely unwarranted to execute him for treason.
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"It's only treason until it works," replied Ellen Zwarensteyn, executive director of the Michigan Center for Civic Education.
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While others were talking treason, Brown was sticking to basics in meetings with farmers and small-town residents.
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The proposed legislation would have outlawed "acts" of treason, secession, sedition or subversion against the Central People's Government.
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The constitutional mechanism for addressing serious misconduct (treason or other high crimes) by a sitting president is impeachment.
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Once in the Bad Place, Janet's chameleonic performance as Bad Janet saved Michael from Shawn's punishment for treason.
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In 2003, Mr. Tsvangirai faced a treason charge for urging his party supporters to topple Mr. Mugabe's government.
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Fawkes and his fellow conspirators were interrogated at the Tower of London and later executed for high treason.
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Economist Paul Krugman accuses "Big Finance," whoever that may be, of treason (apparently because it opposes Elizabeth Warren).
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" But Lamar said that "what he did is a long way from treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Napolitano wrote that the Constitution describes justification for impeachment as treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Ms. Scholl was executed for high treason in 1943 after distributing antiwar leaflets at the University of Munich.
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The former Ukrainian president is living in exile in Russia and wanted for high treason by his country.
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And failing to applaud the president, or even insulting him, is not treason, which has a precise definition.
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His super spy Lance Sterling is framed for treason by a sneering villain with a robotic claw hand.
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For now, by contrast, Trump-Putin-treason is largely in the hands of Robert Mueller and Trump himself.
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In 2013, Mr. Bass, 37, and Mr. Jones, 29, started Treason Toting Company, a maker of tote bags.
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"The Constitution calls for impeachment in cases of bribery, treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors," he said.
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You know, Brennan and all these super patriots, they are the first to throw treason at the President.
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He didn't mention that Trump has actually accused the whistleblower of treason, which kind of ruins the metaphor.
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" Weld had previously noted in an MSNBC appearance that "the punishment for treason under US code is death.
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In January, Mr. Maduro established a new "anti-coup commando" to round up political dissidents accused of treason.
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The order does not apply to those incarcerated for treason, bribery in an election and many violent offenses.
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It repeatedly denounces human rights and environmental activism as "anti-national" — a phrase that carries connotations of treason.
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"When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers," Rep.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The trial of Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha on treason charges will begin on Jan.
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He said the op-ed was an act of treason and should be investigated by the Justice Department.
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Details of treason and espionage cases are often classified and in many cases never fully come to light.
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"This is treason," Trump reportedly told Cohn when he tried to deliver his resignation letter to the president.
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Palestinians oppose the sale of land to Jewish and Israeli groups and consider it an act of treason.
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Penkovsky was arrested in 1962 and executed in 1963 after being found guilty of high treason and espionage.
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Following his execution for treason in 15262 it was unceremoniously sold off, yard-sale style, by Oliver Cromwell.
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After the Confederacy was defeated, white Southerners had to defend something that looked an awful lot like treason.
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Kem Sokha, leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), has been arrested and stands accused of treason.
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All would be tried for sabotage, a charge easier to prove than treason, but also carrying the death penalty.
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Edmund Randolph proposed that a third exclusion from pardons join those for state crimes and impeachments: prosecutions for treason.
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They can scream treason as loud as they want to, but the facts and the history speak for itself.
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Now one of them is dead for their treason and all of Dany's promise was engulfed in Drogon's firestrorm.
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And coming up, Alan Dershowitz, Sara Carter, and Tom Fitton weigh in on the let&aposs obsession with treason.
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The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) was dissolved last year and its leader jailed for alleged treason.
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"Not as a legal matter," Barr said when asked if he believed the law enforcement officials had committed treason.
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Thrones begins the treason-flavored drama around Dany long before Varys starts dropping loaded statements against the dragon queen.
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Some in the Democratic Party and some of my colleagues in the media have even accused Trump of treason.
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You are letting yourself off far too easily if you dismiss the arguments of your fellow Americans as treason.
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Al-Timimi, of Falls Church, was convicted of soliciting treason, among other counts, and sentenced to life in prison.
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Regarding the treason case, he said his accuser had told him he had been coerced by the PA police.
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Cetinkaya also faces pressure from President Tayyip Erdogan, who has railed against high interest rates, equating them with treason.
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Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, two former military-era leaders, were convicted of treason, mutiny and corruption.
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Meanwhile, Cambodia's Supreme Court has disbanded the opposition party and its leader languishes in prison awaiting trial for treason.
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The president responded to the article tweeting, "TREASON?" and calling for the identity of the writer to be disclosed.
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" Dershowitz said the position that he "derived from history" would include "criminal like conduct akin to treason and bribery.
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The country's Supreme Court earlier had said the legislators should be investigated for crimes including conspiracy, treason and rebellion.
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We had to prepare for what that meant in a militaristic society where treason is a literal death sentence.
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" Eliot Cohen, a former senior State Department official for George W. Bush, declared, "If deliberate, it would be treason.
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The HTS leader, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, has told his followers that surrendering their weapons is akin to treason.
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A month after his election he took the bold step of ordering Mr Musharraf to be tried for treason.
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Sokha, 66, is on trial charged with treason, accused of conspiring with the United States to topple Hun Sen.
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For example, suppose the Democrats seized control of all levels of government and immediately began jailing Republicans for treason.
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Convicted of treason against Queen Elizabeth I of England, she was beheaded at Fotheringay Castle in England in 1587.
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"Sooner, rather than later, they will go to prison to pay for their treason and crimes," he said later.
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Lucasfilm and Del Rey Books revealed today that Timothy Zahn is writing a new Star Wars novel: Thrawn: Treason.
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A security law, known as Article 20133, wielded in the name of punishing treason and secessionism, keeps citizens wary.
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Mr Vucic, he says, is committing "high treason" for talking of a possible exchange of territory with Kosovo's Albanians.
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All I'd done was try to learn more and faster, but Robbie viewed it as a crime approaching treason.
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President Tayyip Erdogan, who favours consumption-led growth, has repeatedly railed against high interest rates, equating them with treason.
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In September the president of the main opposition force, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was arrested for treason.
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President Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly railed against the high domestic cost of borrowing, equating high interest rates with "treason".
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Millions of documents turned over, and no one has been charged of any crime involving collusion, treason or espionage.
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" In response, the Times' communications department wrote in a post on Twitter: "Accusing the press of treason is dangerous.
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And if our nation is losing the ability to debate public policy without screaming about treason -- that really matters.
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A 29-year-old opposition lawmaker, Juan Requesens, is also under arrest and charged with treason and attempted homicide.
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President Trump, who most recently suggested that his political opponents are guilty of treason, really enjoys a TV fight.
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Pavlov has previously told Russian media that Mikhailov had originally confessed to treason, but had then retracted that confession.
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And Dany believes Jorah was the treason for gold, though that's not quite right since he wanted a pardon.
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The code also notes that treason is punishable by five years in prison, a $10,000 minimum fine, or death.
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" When he later confirmed the story through surveillance, LBJ told Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen that, "This is treason.
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Government spokesman Shaban Bantariza said Besigye had been charged with treason because he had declared himself "an alternative president".
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Besigye was also charged with treason in 2005, but a judge dismissed the case saying the evidence was insufficient.
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On May 13th he was charged with treason: police claimed to have found 20 machetes at his party headquarters.
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Shortly afterward, the administration declared Odinga's National Resistance Movement (NRM) an "organized criminal group" open to charges of treason.
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The police lodged a treason case against Mr Hussain, who had described Pakistan as a "cancer" in his speech.
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But I'm also not comfortable with people going after the president, accusing him of treason and calling for impeachment.
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And you might expect many moods for a book about war, loyalty, trust betrayed and the buildup to treason.
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" Carlson added that every other network was promoting a message that "insolence is disloyalty" and that "dissent is treason.
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Painter also claimed that Trump met the "dictionary definition" of treason, based on Russian interference in the 85033 election.
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The CNRP's leader inside Cambodia, Kem Sokha, was arrested on treason charges in 2017 and remains under house arrest.
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His government charged Tsvangirai with treason, and passed increasingly tough laws aimed at stifling independent media and public dissent.
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Now US President Donald Trump was being accused of treason by a former head of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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" Over the last several months, House Democratic leadership has slowly ramped up their rhetoric to include words like "treason.
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Graham reacts to Trump tweeting "Treason?" after criticizing a NYT op-ed by an unnamed senior administration official pic.twitter.
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Set to move through the world together, the friends part after a scandalous sexual treason (hair braids are involved).
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Treason is only applicable against those who betray the US to a nation it is formally at war with.
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He's also accused Schiff of treason and suggested that "a Civil War like fracture" could occur if he's impeached.
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Trump on Sunday night went off on Twitter, accusing Schiff of treason and demanding to meet with his accuser.
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One of the station's journalists reported that the man was heard shouting "high treason" and mentioning a sheriff's department.
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"Voting against Donald Trump at this point is really treason to your heritage," said David Duke, the former Klansman.
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" Even Laurence Tribe, a constitutional law expert at Harvard, inveighed that Junior's meeting had the "stench of bribery & treason.
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"It's defined in the Constitution, and this isn't even close," he emailed me Tuesday about a possible "treason" charge.
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No, Donald Trump is not guilty of "treason," a word that's been bandied about much too loosely this week.
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The president essentially has accused Mr. Brennan of lèse majesté — the crime of criticizing the monarch, tantamount to treason.
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As part of a deal, the spies were swapped for four Russian prisoners, three serving sentences on treason convictions.
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Misappropriation of public funds does, but "rebellion" is only vaguely similar to "high treason" in the German penal code.
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The president delegated it hours after declaring that several officials overseeing the investigation had committed treason, a capital offense.
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But if Dany accuses him of treason — for freeing his brother Jaime, her prisoner — Tyrion actually would be guilty.
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The judge even brought up the "T" word when he asked prosecutors if Mr. Flynn had possibly committed treason.
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But a better argument for Sansa to make — beyond feudal politics of loyalty versus treason — would be practical concerns.
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" Mr. Trump, on Twitter, responded by questioning whether the act of writing the piece constituted an act of "TREASON.
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"There's a treason clause in the U.S. Constitution," said Michael Libbee, a professor of geography at Central Michigan University.
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If you're not thrilling to his vision and submitting to him, you're possibly guilty of treason — remember that rant?
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Lookout Masuku, were tried on treason charges after the discovery of what the authorities said was an arms cache.
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Biar was arrested in July, 2018 and charged with treason, although a court threw out those charges in April.
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To the Editor: I promise that I will stop throwing the word "treason" around when President Trump stops lying.
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"If this had happened in the 1950s, there would be people up on treason charges right now," he said.
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His government has released prominent political prisoners and given amnesty to those charged with treason and other political crimes.
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Mr. Kenyatta had warned media outlets not to broadcast the event, which government officials said they would consider treason.
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They confessed to "high treason" for adopting alien ideologies and failing to study properly the history of their country.
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It would be treason to say that we were eager to see Heinkel HE-111s and Dornier DO-19423s.
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Russia's attack on American democracy was truly heinous, and if the Trump people were involved, that would be treason.
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