EMP would cause the grid to go down.
The Grid will not come back up for days.
someone will stand trial for treason.
Not a chance..The standard line would be "We don't have time for this, we need to get America back up and running again; we'll deal with it later". And it will never come. Stand trial? No. The citizenry needs to take note of the treasonous bastards and do the work themselves if such an even as an EMP attack happens.
“EMP would cause the grid to go down.
The Grid will not come back up for days.
someone will stand trial for treason”.
In the worst case, no one will be alive to perform a trial. As others have mentioned-—read One Second After…scary book.