Why do trump supporters think death threats will scare election officials into declaring trump the winner of every election?

[Anonymous]

Woman accused of making death threats against judge in Trump documents case WPRI. com

[BeMuse]

If you commit treason, it’s not a threat it’s a legal eventuality.

[BeMuse]

Treason is no joke. You should learn the law.

[BeMuse]

4.17.3 Saboteurs and Other Persons Engaging in Secretive, Hostile Acts Behind Enemy Lines. In addition to spies, other persons acting clandestinely or under false pretenses with a hostile purpose behind enemy lines have also been treated like spies under the law of war. Like spies, persons engaged in these secretive, hostile activities behind enemy lines have also been deprived of the privileges of combatant status and often been punished. For example, saboteurs346 acting clandestinely or under false pretenses in the zone of operations of a belligerent are treated as spies.347 However, activities besides sabotage that are helpful to one side’s war effort that are done behind the other side’s lines have been punishable as well, often under the rubric of “war treason,”348 “secretly entering the lines,”349 or “activities hostile to the security of the State.”350 These kinds of activities almost necessarily take on the character of spying.351 In many cases, these actions have been reported as spying. 352 However, the actual purpose of these activities may not be to gain or transmit intelligence information, but to take other sorts of actions that would further the war effort. Thus, a belligerent’s presence on the territory controlled by an opposing State with a hostile purpose while clandestinely or under false pretenses, suffices to make that person liable to treatment as a spy under the law of war.353

[BeMuse]

346 2001 Canadian MANUAL ¶610(1) (“Saboteurs are persons operating behind the lines of an adverse party to commit acts of destruction.”); GC COMMENTARY 57 (“Sabotage is harder to define, as no definition of it is given in any text in international law. The term ‘sabotage’ [in article 5 of the GC] should be understood to mean acts whose object or effect is to damage or destroy material belonging to the army of occupation or utilized by it.”).

[BeMuse]

347 2001 Canadian MANUAL ¶610(3) (“Civilian saboteurs or saboteurs not in uniform are not so protected [i. e., entitled to POW status] and are liable to be treated as spies. Such civilian saboteurs and saboteurs not in uniform may be tried in accordance with the law of the captor and may face the death penalty. They must not, however, be punished without a fair trial.”); 1958 UK MANUAL ¶331 (“Whether saboteurs, i. e., persons dropped or landed behind the lines of the belligerent in order to commit acts of destruction and terrorism, are to be treated as spies depends on whether they are caught in disguise or not. If they are disguised in civilian clothing or in the uniform of the army by which they are caught or that of an ally of that army, they are in the same position as spies. If caught in their own uniform, they are entitled to be treated as prisoners of war.”).

[BeMuse]

348 See GREENSPAN, MODERN LAW OF LAND WARFARE 330 (“The characteristic which unites all acts of war treason is that they are hostile acts committed inside the area controlled by the belligerent against whom the acts are directed by persons who do not possess the status of combatants.”); LAUTERPACHT, II OPPENHEIM’S INTERNATIONAL LAW 575 (§255) (“So-called ‘war treason’ consists of all such acts (except hostilities in arms on the part of the civilian population, spreading of seditious propaganda by aircraft, and espionage) committed within the lines of a belligerent as are harmful to him and are intended to favour the enemy.”); LIEBER CODE art. 90 (“A traitor under the law of war,

[BeMuse]

349 Ex parte Quirin, 317 U. S. 1, 31 (1942) (giving as an example of an unprivileged belligerent “an enemy combatant who without uniform comes secretly through the lines for the purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property”); WINTHROP, MILITARY LAW & PRECEDENTS 786 (“A similar though less aggravated offence against the laws of war is that of officers, soldiers, or agents, of one belligerent who come secretly within the lines of the other, or within the territory held by his forces, for any unauthorized purpose other than that of the spy, as, for example, for the purpose of recruiting for their army, obtaining horses or supplies for the same, holding unlawful communication, &c.,--a class of offences of which instances were not unfrequent in the border States during our late civil war.”).

[BeMuse]

350 GC art. 5 (“Where in the territory of a Party to the conflict, the latter is satisfied that an individual protected person is definitely suspected of or engaged in activities hostile to the security of the State, such individual person shall not be entitled to claim such rights and privileges under the present Convention as would, if exercised in the favour of such individual person, be prejudicial to the security of such State.”).

[BeMuse]

351 1958 UK MANUAL ¶331 note 1 (“A question may arise if a saboteur, being a member of the armed forces, is caught in civilian clothes worn over or under his military uniform. It may be difficult to accept the defence that the intention was to shed the civilian clothing before the commission of the offence. Sabotage operations behind the enemy lines are frequently carried out by members of the armed forces in uniform who, upon completion of their mission, make their way to the nearest neutral territory with a view to returning to their own country. If when engaged in sabotage or subsequent evading action they are discovered in civilian clothing worn over their uniform or underneath it they run the risk of being treated as spies and not merely as members of the armed forces engaged in a sabotage mission. … It may well be that a sabotage mission behind the enemy lines inevitably takes on the added character of espionage, unless uniform is worn throughout the stay in enemy territory.”).

[BeMuse]

352 L. Oppenheim, On War Treason, 33 LAW QUARTERLY REVIEW 266 (1917) (“Thus, in 1780, during the American War of Independence, Major André was convicted and hanged as a spy, although he was not seeking information but was returning after having negotiated treason with General Arnold; it was a case of war treason. And the Japanese Major Shozo Jakoga and Captain Teisuki Oki, who in the summer of 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, were caught, disguised in Chinese clothes, in the attempt to destroy, with the aid of dynamite, a railway bridge in Manchuria in the rear of the Russian forces—a clear case of war treason—would previous to the Hague Regulations surely have been executed as spies; in fact the case was reported in the newspapers as one of espionage.”).

[BeMuse]

353 Ex parte Quirin, 317 U. S. 1, 38 (1942) (“[E]ach petitioner, in circumstances which gave him the status of an enemy belligerent, passed our military and naval lines and defenses or went behind those lines, in civilian dress and with hostile purpose. The offense was complete when with that purpose they entered — or, having so entered, they remained upon — our territory in time of war without uniform or other appropriate means of identification.”).

[Snakeyes7]

It's accused at this point. Innocent until proven guilty.