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Notable that @SecArmy senses need to speak out now about sworn oath to Constitution and respecting right of assembly.
This is why I asked the top military justice expert to write about matters including duty to disobey illegal orders from a POTUS....
Watch this space
Notable that @SecArmy senses need to speak out now about sworn oath to Constitution and respecting right of assembly.
This is why I asked the top military justice expert to write about matters including duty to disobey illegal orders from a POTUS....
2/3 Gene Fidell (@globalmjreform):
"If the president were to issue a clearly unlawful order, military personnel would be obliged to refuse. And if they failed to refuse an unlawful order, they could be prosecuted for any conduct that violated the UCMJ."
justsecurity.org/70539/the-mili…
"If the president were to issue a clearly unlawful order, military personnel would be obliged to refuse. And if they failed to refuse an unlawful order, they could be prosecuted for any conduct that violated the UCMJ."
justsecurity.org/70539/the-mili…
3/3 And thanks to professor @JohnCDehn (former Army JAG) for writing about the Constitutional limits on the military's use of detention, and nonlethal and lethal force in #GeorgeFloydProtests #BLMprotest.
justsecurity.org/70535/the-u-s-…
justsecurity.org/70535/the-u-s-…
