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Prosecutors using seditious conspiracy and other statutes instead of treason due to its high constitutional standard and rare prosecution
are related but legally distinct offenses: treason is a narrowly defined constitutional crime that requires an overt act of levying war against the or giving aid and comfort to its enemies and carries...
The criminal statutes commonly discussed after events like January 6 differentiate sharply in statutory maximum penalties: the rebellion/insurrection statute (18 U.S.C. § 2383) carries a maximum of 10...
Federal prosecutors pursued hundreds of January 6 defendants, securing hundreds of convictions and dozens of conspiracy indictments—including seditious conspiracy charges against organizers—while Spec...
Over the last century and seditious‑conspiracy statutes have been invoked only sparingly: treason prosecutions are vanishingly rare and seditious‑conspiracy charges appear in a small number of high‑pr...