Trump May Be Charged for a Second Time Under Law That Could Provide for the Death Penalty
Like the Espionage Act, a Civil War-era statute carries the ultimate penalty.
With an indictment in respect of January 6 expected to be handed up any day against President Trump, a law used to prosecute the Ku Klux Klan and child traffickers — and that sometimes carries the death penalty and was used against officers tried for killing George Floyd — is now a card in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutorial deck.
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