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Michael Flynn still calling for a violent coup (Original Post) magicguido May 2021 OP
Does this qualify as sedition? Arkansas Granny May 2021 #1
the incompetent mueller didn't shut this traitor up samsingh May 2021 #2
How the help was he the national security advisor? live love laugh May 2021 #3

Arkansas Granny

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1. Does this qualify as sedition?
Mon May 31, 2021, 09:38 AM
May 2021
Sedition is the crime of revolting or inciting revolt against government. However, because of the broad protection of free speech under the FIRST AMENDMENT, prosecutions for sedition are rare. Nevertheless, sedition remains a crime in the United States under 18 U.S.C.A. § 2384 (2000), a federal statute that punishes seditious conspiracy, and 18 U.S.C.A. § 2385 (2000), which outlaws advocating the overthrow of the federal government by force. Generally, a person may be punished for sedition only when he or she makes statements that create a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to rights that the government may lawfully protect (SCHENCK V. UNITED STATES, 249 U.S. 47, 39 S. Ct. 247, 63 L. Ed. 470 [1919]).

Read more: Sedition - Further Readings - Government, Act, United, and Seditious - JRank Articles https://law.jrank.org/pages/10113/Sedition.html#ixzz6wRuv0Rbj


There is a reason the former guy pardoned him and this is why.
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