“...all say that brigade commanders cannot issue lawful combat orders without the approval of the President, so the lawfulness is absolutely dependent on legal authorization from the President.”
One last thought... This is the source of your problem, the category error I spoke of before.
Butterdezillion does not think that BHO is President.
The US Military, The Legislative Branch, the Judicial Branch, The Executive branch and the State Governments do think the BHO is President.
Until you can those two groups together you aren’t going to get anywhere.
I don’t know whether he is the President or not. Depends on whether the breach of the law in the electoral vote count invalidates the declaration of Obama as the electoral winner.
But I do know, for a fact, that Obama could not have “qualified” by Jan 20, 2009 because even his age can not be legally determined until the actual amended BC from Hawaii is presented as evidence to a legal authority.
And I know that the 20th Amendment says that if the President elect has failed to qualify by Jan 20th the Vice President elect is to “act as President until a President shall have qualified.”
Whether Obama is the president or not is irrelevant to the lawfulness of Lakin’s orders. Whether Obama can Constitutionally “ACT AS PRESIDENT” is absolutely critical, and I know that the Constitutional answer is that he cannot. I know that because that is what the 20th Amendment says flat-out.