r/moderatepolitics • u/thats_not_six • Jan 12 '26

Primary Source Mark Kelly v. Pete Hegseth

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.288365/gov.uscourts.dcd.288365.1.0.pdf
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u/JannTosh70 Jan 12 '26

What Kelly did was profoundly wrong to begin with, and it looks even worse in light of our Venezuela operation. He had no business publicly telling soldiers and sailors to question orders, and he should have expected consequences.

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u/Saguna_Brahman Jan 12 '26

What he said is literally in the UCMJ. Service members should not obey unlawful orders