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American politician (1749-1822)
Federal felony convictions do not, by the plain text of the Constitution or by settled federal statute, automatically bar a person from running for or holding most U.S. federal offices; the Constituti...
Yes. Historical and more recent sedition prosecutions have at times carried extreme penalties or the threat of them, and several high-profile cases prompted legal or political pushback that changed la...
Sedition prosecutions in U.S. history have repeatedly tracked moments of national crisis—1798 under the Alien and Sedition Acts, World War I under the Espionage and Sedition Acts (1917–18) which produ...