Investigate Trump for High Treason


Investigate Trump for High Treason
The Issue
Less than two weeks. This is how long it took for the current President to set the US on a course of reactionary, discriminatory, and downright authoritarian events. Even before taking office, he announced plans for mass deportations, tariffs on foreign goods, repeal of policies that protect diversity and the rights of marginalized groups, and official limitations on gender identity.
Within a day of taking office, Trump declared a national emergency at the US/Mexico border and attempted to end birthright citizenship. He has also limited gender to male and female and denied gender-affirming care to minors, for mostly religious reasons.
He has attempted to erase DEI initiatives, which includes works about and by LGBTQ+ people, people of color, women, and those with disabilities.
The second Trump administration has also sought to silence whistleblowers. He has recently requested that the Supreme Court change the law and allow for the silencing of whistleblowers.
Trump has also threatened the Fourth Amendment by ordering mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. While undocumented immigration is, by technical definition, illegal, these laws are difficult to enforce. Since these people are undocumented, there is no efficient way to track them. This means that finding undocumented immigrants can only be done via racial profiling. With no way to distinguish a legal immigrant from an undocumented one, evidence must be found through arbitrary searches which violate the 4th Amendment.
The Fifth Amendment is also put in Jeopardy here. If evidence can't be obtained without violating civil rights, the justice system cannot bring charges against anybody accused.
Furthermore, the Sixth Amendment gives accused persons the right to a fair trial by an impartial jury. While this is possible with a single immigration case, the call for mass deportations means that the process of legally deporting people would take several years, at least. During this time, more immigration cases will presumably occur, and the courts would be forced into a game of catch-up that there's no hope of winning.
Trump's immigration policy would also violate the Eighth Amendment, if his plan to use Guantanamo Bay rings true. Guantanamo Bay has a long history of controversy, and has, on multiple occasions been accused of cruel and unusual punishment and violating various other rights of detainees. Unless and until these accusations are addressed and corrected, we can only assume the same conditions await those detained by the Trump administration.
The Tenth Amendment states that the federal government only has the rights outlined in the Constitution, and all else must be left to more localized government offices. Trump has also sought to violate this on more than one occasion.
What it all adds up to in the end is this: Trump is unfit for the Presidency. He shows no respect for the law, long-time allies, or the very country he now helms. Perhaps there is no better description of our current situation and what must be done than in the Declaration of Independence--"when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, envinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is the {people's} right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
- Donald Trump and his coconspirators must be investigated, and, if found guilty, made to face a fair trial by an impartial jury for charges of high treason.
- If found guilty, Trump must be immediately impeached and expelled from office. Other penalties may follow, but expulsion from office and a lifetime ban from any other forms of political office must be enforced.
- Any other officials found to have committed treason or collaborated in treason must be expelled from office and banned from holding further office.
- Any person/s with potential conflicts of interest in the Presidency, the trial, or related issues cannot be part of the investigation or proceedings against Trump or others charged. This includes former running mates or Trump-appointed officials, any persons that have run against him in an election, and anybody who has personally butted heads with the current commander-in-chief.
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The Issue
Less than two weeks. This is how long it took for the current President to set the US on a course of reactionary, discriminatory, and downright authoritarian events. Even before taking office, he announced plans for mass deportations, tariffs on foreign goods, repeal of policies that protect diversity and the rights of marginalized groups, and official limitations on gender identity.
Within a day of taking office, Trump declared a national emergency at the US/Mexico border and attempted to end birthright citizenship. He has also limited gender to male and female and denied gender-affirming care to minors, for mostly religious reasons.
He has attempted to erase DEI initiatives, which includes works about and by LGBTQ+ people, people of color, women, and those with disabilities.
The second Trump administration has also sought to silence whistleblowers. He has recently requested that the Supreme Court change the law and allow for the silencing of whistleblowers.
Trump has also threatened the Fourth Amendment by ordering mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. While undocumented immigration is, by technical definition, illegal, these laws are difficult to enforce. Since these people are undocumented, there is no efficient way to track them. This means that finding undocumented immigrants can only be done via racial profiling. With no way to distinguish a legal immigrant from an undocumented one, evidence must be found through arbitrary searches which violate the 4th Amendment.
The Fifth Amendment is also put in Jeopardy here. If evidence can't be obtained without violating civil rights, the justice system cannot bring charges against anybody accused.
Furthermore, the Sixth Amendment gives accused persons the right to a fair trial by an impartial jury. While this is possible with a single immigration case, the call for mass deportations means that the process of legally deporting people would take several years, at least. During this time, more immigration cases will presumably occur, and the courts would be forced into a game of catch-up that there's no hope of winning.
Trump's immigration policy would also violate the Eighth Amendment, if his plan to use Guantanamo Bay rings true. Guantanamo Bay has a long history of controversy, and has, on multiple occasions been accused of cruel and unusual punishment and violating various other rights of detainees. Unless and until these accusations are addressed and corrected, we can only assume the same conditions await those detained by the Trump administration.
The Tenth Amendment states that the federal government only has the rights outlined in the Constitution, and all else must be left to more localized government offices. Trump has also sought to violate this on more than one occasion.
What it all adds up to in the end is this: Trump is unfit for the Presidency. He shows no respect for the law, long-time allies, or the very country he now helms. Perhaps there is no better description of our current situation and what must be done than in the Declaration of Independence--"when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, envinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is the {people's} right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
- Donald Trump and his coconspirators must be investigated, and, if found guilty, made to face a fair trial by an impartial jury for charges of high treason.
- If found guilty, Trump must be immediately impeached and expelled from office. Other penalties may follow, but expulsion from office and a lifetime ban from any other forms of political office must be enforced.
- Any other officials found to have committed treason or collaborated in treason must be expelled from office and banned from holding further office.
- Any person/s with potential conflicts of interest in the Presidency, the trial, or related issues cannot be part of the investigation or proceedings against Trump or others charged. This includes former running mates or Trump-appointed officials, any persons that have run against him in an election, and anybody who has personally butted heads with the current commander-in-chief.
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Petition created on February 17, 2025


