Retired Navy Captain and U.S. Senator Mark Kelly has filed a civil lawsuit against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, challenging the Pentagon’s censure and demotion proceedings after he and five other Democratic lawmakers urged U.S. troops to refuse unlawful orders, which the government argues undermined military discipline. When six Democratic lawmakers released a video in November 2025 urging U.S. troops to refuse unlawful military orders, they framed it as a defense of the Constitution. The Trump administration called it sedition. The video appeared against the backdrop of two controversial administration actions: the deployment of National Guard troops to U.S. cities, a policy being actively litigated in federal court, and U.S. military strikes on suspected drug-trafficking vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. It is important…
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