[lexington minuteman 1775]

As the Church lady used to say on SNL: “Well isn’t that special”!
Don’t we still have “Sedition” and “Treason” as crimes listed in the Constitution that we can still charge people with even if they are a former President?

[MHGinTN]

How much cash will it take to get these bastards to keep this rotten apple?

[El Gato]

Don’t we still have “Sedition” and “Treason” as crimes listed in the Constitution that we can still charge people with even if they are a former President?

Treason yes, sedition no, never did have sedition listed in the Constitution. In fact, IIRC, the first attempt at making it a crime, The Alien and Sedition Act, and other early attempts to make sedition a crime, were held by Thomas Jefferson to be unconstitutional and void, he then pardoned and ordered the release of all who had been convicted of violating them.

However the 1798 "Alien Enemies Act" is still in effect, as 50 U.S.C. § 21-24.but only applies during a declared war. That's the first really good reason I've seen to declare war on the Jihadies, except that the language of the law probably does not apply to non national groups like Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, rather than citizens of foreign countries who the US is at war with.