Just a liddle? I say WAY over the top.
Wasn't it "OPEN" treason before? At the very least, it was an open seditious act.
Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent towards, or resistance against established authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws. Seditious words in writing are seditious libel. A seditionist is one who engages in or promotes the interest of sedition.
Typically, sedition is considered a subversive act, and the overt acts that may be prosecutable under sedition laws vary from one legal code to another. Where the history of these legal codes has been traced, there is also a record of the change in the definition of the elements constituting sedition at certain points in history. This overview has served to develop a sociological definition of sedition as well, within the study of state persecution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seditious_conspiracy
Logic? Really? Gov. Moonbeam doesn't use any stinking logic, don't ya know?
/sarc
Seriously. Why end the gravy train of funds?