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The State Department web site has a history of the shifts in power between the Executive and Legislative branches including times when the Legislative branch has changed or modified the President’s policies - like when congress did not like President Carter’s shift away from relations with Taiwan.

Well, but what where discussing here is a member of congress going overseas to communicate an entirely different (democrat) US policy to a foreign head of state directly.

It's one thing for the entire Congress to vote on what our relations with a country should be thereby directing the President to pursue such a course, but it's quite another to have individual members running off to offer alternatives to what is communicated directly by the executive branch, which has sole Constitutional authority over such matters. And doing so against the wishes of the President, as publicly expressed, before hand, by that very same President.

So legally, she is in violation of the Logan Act, and IMHO, guilty of Treason as well.

>>So legally, she is in violation of the Logan Act, and IMHO, guilty of Treason as well.<<

The Logan act is for private citizens not congress acting in their official capacity.

Jesse Jackson could have been charged a couple of times but its never applies to U.S. officials -its only for people acting “without authority”. This is harmful because of stupid use of congressional authority - that’s a completely different kind of problem.

BTW, the official name is “Private correspondence with foreign governments”

So legally, she is in violation of the Logan Act, and IMHO, guilty of Treason as well.

Absolutely! She undermined the Prez and the State Department with NO authority. W even told her not to go.

A Logan Act violation at best, treason at worst.