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Charles “Cully” Stimson is the deputy director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, the manager of the National Security Law Program, a senior legal fellow, and a senior advisor to the president at The Heritage Foundation. Read his research.
Six Democrat congressmen recently released a video directed at members of the U.S. military and intelligence communities imploring them to “refuse illegal orders” from President Donald Trump. As former members of the military and intelligence community, they should be ashamed of themselves and retract their insubordinate, ignorant, and politically motivated diatribe.
The video, posted earlier this week, was created by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa., Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H., Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., and Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo.
One might expect that their military experience would make them more cautious, not less, about encouraging service members to reflexively doubt the legality of orders from America’s commander in chief. But that’s exactly what they did.
“We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now,” intoned Slotkin. “This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens,” Kelly, Slotkin, and Crow added.
Really? How?
These claims are simply false, no matter how fearful the tone. Military recruiting and morale are at historic highs. If service members are truly under “enormous stress,” why are retention and recruitment numbers soaring?
“Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution,” the congressmen contend in the video. “Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad but from right here at home.”
Really? How exactly? They don’t say.
They add that the “laws are clear” that members of the military “can” and “must” refuse illegal orders and that no one has to carry out orders that “violate the law or our Constitution.”
Everyone in the military knows that, but what does that have to do with anything?
Throughout the short video, they never mention a single Trump administration order—or even a policy area—which they believe violates the Constitution. This vagueness reveals the real purpose of the video—political theater and yet another example of Trump Derangement Syndrome