The Prairieland sentences are the sharpest fact here. Eight protesters received thirty to one hundred years under federal antiterrorism statutes, while the executive order authorizing that prosecutorial framework, as the Brennan Center notes, cites no statute or constitutional provision because no domestic terrorist designation authority exists. The legal nullity of the designation did not prevent its operational use: a label Congress never authorized became the basis for sentences that exceed what the January 6 seditious conspiracy convictions produced. That gap between legal authority and executive action is where the republic's internal boundary system is supposed to hold — and in this case it did not.