What happens if the President issues a potentially illegal order to the military?
What happens if the President issues a potentially illegal order to the military?
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Published 7/12/2024SOURCE: military.com
In speaking with more than a dozen Pentagon officials as well as outside experts, what emerged was a landscape where few concrete legal protections exist to prevent an abuse of power by a president, especially if that president chooses to lean on the Insurrection Act, a vaguely worded law originally passed in 1792...