It’s too bad, because we all ought to be most interested in the truth.
It is interesting that my unresearched point of view was unsettled law until 1925, and that the phrase “offesnes against the US” was taken, by SCOTUS, to be a point of style meant to distinguish only between those, and offenses against one of the several states.
Completely unrelated, here is a good read ... https://twitter.com/SeekerOTL/status/1289901947676286976
Subject is David H. Laufman.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1289895051955339264.html <- exact same material