However, service members have a duty to disobey unlawful orders. The question is, what constitutes an unlawful order? “An ...

Six Democrat lawmakers released a video telling service members of their legal obligation to refuse illegal orders under the UCMJ.

As Maj. Keith Petty, then an Army judge advocate, explained in an excellent summary of the law in a 2016 piece in Just Security, this is called the “manifestly unlawful” test, and — as Petty described ...

The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) governs the conduct of every person in the United States military, and applies ...

Colorado Rep. Jason Crow, a former Army ranger, shared graphic death threats he says were made against him and his family ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday accused half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition “punishable by DEATH” after the ...

The Rules for Courts-Martial states that an order is lawful “unless it is contrary to the Constitution, the laws of the ...

While the lawmakers behind the video framed the appeal as a defense of the Constitution, military legal codes make clear that ...

Democrats urged members of the military to refuse illegal orders — something President Trump called “seditious.” In fact, ...

With his Aug. 11, 2025, announcement that he was sending the National Guard – along with federal law enforcement – into ...