I just wanted the death penalty for some of them... the others, like booting a politician from office for tax-evasion, I think are required at this point-in-time because nothing less will “be allowed to stick.”
As an example, I offer to you the case of John Murtha and the Haditha Marines; the judiciary ruled that a federal law protecting federal employees from civil suits “while in execution of office” applied to Murtha and he was therefor immune from all slander suits the marines could bring.
Except for the damage inflicted directly on the Constitution in the 16th, 17th, 18th, 22nd, 23rd and 26th Amendments, our main problem since 1876 has been the nullification of it through Supreme Court jurisprudence and many “corrupt bargains” between the two parties.
(The deal that traded Florida’s electoral votes to make Republican Rutherford Hayes president in 1877 in return for the premature end of Reconstruction was called the “Corrupt Bargain” in the North. The seeds of our decline begin there.)