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DOJ Admits DOGE Team Caught Sharing Social Security Data With Election Denier Group
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Fair enough, but that does make the treason laws pretty damn pointless as the US hasn't technically declared war with any nation since the Axis-allied nations in World War 2. They're all just 'special military operations' made by executive order or congressional resolutions. And seeing as The Constitution explicitly states that Congress has the 'sole power to declare war', I'd say the rules are quite flexible, rather that legally rigid - and there's been a lot more Constitutional flexibility lately than rigidity.
Yep, which is why there's only ever been ~40 treason cases in the history of the US. It was very intentionally made nearly impossible to prove, to prevent it being abused for political reasons. It was considered extremely important to have a strict definition to prevent accusations of treason being casually used to describe an act by a political opponent. Also this is a decent example of why the US hasn't formally declared war in so long - many things are only possible under a declaration of war, almost all of them both politically and socially horrible. It's been in everyone's best interests to not open that particular avenue of abuse as a result.
Which is of course abused for political reasons to shield evil doers from ever facing consequences.