“We’ve had hundreds and hundreds, if not, you know, closer to 1,000 threats," Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) told NBC News.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said the number of threats against her exploded after Donald Trump posted social media messages targeting Democrats on Thursday.
“We’ve had hundreds and hundreds, if not, you know, closer to 1,000 threats,” Slotkin, one of the six Democrats featured in a video that provoked Trump’s ire, told NBC News’s Ryan Nobles.
On Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said they’d looked into security for the lawmakers who appeared in a video released earlier this week. In the video, Slotkin and five other Democratic veterans and former intelligence officers reminded service members that they could “refuse illegal orders” from the administration.
They could refuse illegal orders???
Aren’t they required to refuse illegal orders under the USMJ and the constitution?
Servicemen were dishonorably discharged for refusing to deploy to Iraq.
Shooting at civilians is obviously illegal. Soldiers must disobey such an order.
However, there are many circumstances where there isn’t an obvious crime. A soldier who disobeys an order not obviously illegal assumes the risk of punishment
Honestly, it’s a legal grey area, especially if those orders come from the President. However that is absolutely not the mind frame conservatives are engaging this with. It’s just good old-fashioned hate of the other.
The YouTube channel Legal Eagle did an interesting video on it. Link
It’s pretty clear what is legal and what isn’t here. The president is not above the law, and many of his decisions/actions have been deemed illegal by the actual court system.