https://www.youtube.com/embed/fsI9ml9oF_s easy to watch, easy to see Kelly's point. And Stewart's going beyond softball questioning.
Strib carrying an AP feed,
And presumably the Pentagon gets some Jag Corp person to bless whatever they know to be suspect, so rank and file can question that? Watch the video.
The AP item, in part:
WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly sued the Pentagon on Monday over attempts to punish him for his warnings about illegal orders, claiming the Trump administration trampled on his constitutional rights to free speech.
Kelly, a former U.S. Navy pilot who represents Arizona, is seeking to block his censure last week from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who said he censured Kelly over his participation in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders.
Hegseth said the Jan. 5 censure — by itself simply a formal letter with little practical consequence — was ''a necessary process step'' to proceedings that could result in a demotion from Kelly's retired rank of captain and subsequent reduction in retirement pay.
Kelly asked the federal court in Washington, D.C., to rule that the censure letter, the proceedings about his rank and any other punishments against him are ''unlawful and unconstitutional."
''The First Amendment forbids the government and its officials from punishing disfavored expression or retaliating against protected speech,'' his lawsuit says. ''That prohibition applies with particular force to legislators speaking on matters of public policy.''
U.S. District Judge Leon, who was nominated to the bench by Republican President George W. Bush, scheduled a hearing on Thursday in Washington, D.C., for Kelly's request for a temporary restraining order.
Specificly -
The censure stemmed from Kelly's participation in a video in November with five other Democratic lawmakers — all veterans of the armed services and intelligence community — in which they called on troops to uphold the Constitution and not to follow the Trump administration's military directives if they were unlawful.
The 90-second video was first posted on a social media account belonging to Sen. Elissa Slotkin. Reps. Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, Maggie Goodlander and Chrissy Houlahan also appeared in the video.
Republican President Donald Trump accused the lawmakers of sedition ''punishable by DEATH'' in a social media post days later.
Kelly and the other lawmakers have not backed down from their video, which was released as the Pentagon began attacking suspected drug-smuggling boats in the waters near Venezuela. The attacks have now killed at least 115 people.
Is it piracy to obliterate a boat without boarding it? And, "leave no survivors." That is or has been alleged as part of the order(s) in question, and implementation tasked military personnel obeyed the order, apparently. The court will wrestle with the Nuremberg Trial, decades after the victors in WW II tried some of the defeated.
Nazi behavior was at trial in the late post-war 1940's, back then. Now? Street ICE actions are being ordered and squads on the streets are acting against people, Renee Good, shot three times in the face at point blank range, etc.
More paramilitary squads of heavily armed masked middle-age white people are said to be dispatched and coming. Boots on the Minneapolis ground. In the homeland, never mind Venezuela. Liklihood of blood on the Minneapolis ground - high.
Brown people like Usha Vance, where she lives, likely need not worry. Brown people like Kash Patel and Satya Nadella, ditto as to likely risk, given where they work. Their connections matter. Roofing workers, we'll see about them.