What Pete Hegseth's fixation on Mark Kelly reveals

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The Defense secretary is appealing a judge’s order blocking him from censuring Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., for participating in a video with five other Democratic lawmakers reminding service members of their duty to disobey illegal orders.

Hegseth’s determination to continue fighting Kelly in court shows how fixated he is on suppressing free speech and punishing dissent against the Pentagon. His doggedness also illustrates the Trump administration’s determination to reconceptualize the military as a politicized fighting force that shouldn’t be bound by the law.

Hegseth seems to face a steep hill in his bid to punish Kelly.

In November, six Democratic lawmakers who served either in the military or in the intelligence community released a video in which they said at various points that service members “can” or “must” disobey illegal orders and reminded them that they “swear an oath to protect and defend this Constitution.” Even though it’s true that service members swear to protect the Constitution and are only required to follow lawful orders, and even though their remarks are constitutionally protected free speech, the Trump administration responded hysterically. President Donald Trump absurdly declared the video an act of “sedition” that should be “punishable by death.”

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As Lt. Col. Rachel E. VanLandingham, who’s retired from the Air Force, wrote for MS NOW, Hegseth’s position is that he can treat military retirees the same as active service members — who do face more stringent restrictions on their speech while serving in the military, in part to ensure the military’s need for obedience to commands. But VanLandingham, who is a law professor at Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, said “no court has ever extended this shrunken First Amendment protection to military retirees.” She added, “I trust that the D.C. Circuit, and eventually the Supreme Court, will continue to protect the free speech rights of millions of us military retirees.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pete-hegseth-fixation-mark-kelly-110000418.html

[marble falls]

1. ED? Performance anxiety? On another bender?

[chicoescuela]

4. Maybe Pete has a small peter too?

[progressoid]

5. Purity of essence

&t

[vapor2]

2. Maybe jealousy?

[odins folly]

3. Mostly jealousy

Kegstand was a major in the reserves, it’s been said he joined in cas he went into politics…. Fuck him

Major is an O4, Kelly an O6 and had a distinguished career in the Navy and with NASA, unlike the dunktank drunk weekend warrior…..

Jealousy…..

[Norrrm]

6. DUI hire needs to assert his self-importance.

Generals, admirals, and other high-ranking officers must feel let down to toe the line to this drunken minor major.