No, they didn't, and you know it.
This is laughably thin legal gruel. The Founders would have been gobsmacked by the audacity of the US Attorneys in arguing for this stuff.
You would be correct. Lets face it this is criminal trespass at best bumped up to Rico status. I blame Congress and NDAA for a lot of this prosecutorial overreach agains’t US citizens.
I don't "know" anything-- I have zero inside knowledge--but that was (and is) my guess.
This is laughably thin legal gruel. The Founders would have been gobsmacked by the audacity of the US Attorneys in arguing for this stuff.
Jefferson-- yes. Washington, I'm not so sure. He had people sentenced to death for the Whiskey Rebellion. (Fortunately, he was out of office before the sentences were carried out. Adams commuted the death sentences to life imprisonment, and then Jefferson pardoned them.)