Posted on 11/22/2025 10:39:29 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Congressional Democrats are openly encouraging anarchy with a new video calling on military and intelligence officials to disobey what they claim are unlawful orders from President Trump. All government officials take an oath to uphold the law, including the United States Constitution and all statutes. There are some examples where orders are plainly unlawful, and a defense of "I was just following orders" is unavailing. An infamous case involved Lt. William Calley, who led the horrific My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War. Democrats’ call here, however, is staggeringly dangerous and invites a coup.
But exactly which orders do Democrats believe are unlawful? Are ICE raids part of these supposedly unlawful orders? The Supreme Court recently stayed an order by leftist Judge Maame Ewusi Mensah Frimpong in Los Angeles that had curtailed such raids. In Chicago, Judge Sara Ellis issued a broad injunction against the use of force by ICE officials, but the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals just stayed it, characterizing it as overbroad. Two district judges in San Francisco and Portland recently enjoined the use of National Guard troops in those cities to protect ICE agents who were under attack. In both instances, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed those rulings. A similar ruling by radical Biden Judge April Perry in Chicago is pending before the Supreme Court.
In the first 10 months of the Trump administration, district courts — mostly in leftist-run cities like D.C., Portland, Chicago, San Francisco and Boston — have issued nearly four dozen injunctions against the government. This number is staggering; it has almost eclipsed the 64 injunctions issued during Trump’s first term. Trump cannot even repaint or power wash the Eisenhower Building, an office location for Executive Branch officials. The prohibition...
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Treason.
All those renegade judges claiming PDJT is doing something unlawful have a lot to do with what the 6 “congressmen” did.
“...what they claim are unlawful orders...”
I guess no one noticed, unless you were current or past military, that they used the term “illegal orders,” not unlawful. There is no such thing a an illegal order as when it is given it is either lawful or unlawful. This term creates whether it is one that determines if it has been given, either direct or indirect. And the assumption of whether it violates the UCMJ is what they work with, not made up terms that can be misconstrued to “spin” what they are saying.
Military members must obey all lawful orders, and an order is only considered unlawful if it violates the Constitution, U.S. laws, international law, or directs the commission of a crime. Refusing an order can be a difficult decision in the moment and may result in consequences, even if the order was unlawful. It is not always the privilege of the troop taking the order to know the reason for it.
wy69
Here’s the deal - elected members of either the US House of Representatives or the US Senate may make the most seditious of statements WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE, if first they express the sentiment from the floor of either the House or the Senate. So trying them for sedition or treason is out of the question. Secondly they speak of “illegal” orders, not “unlawful” orders, again scrambling up the terms. “Illegal” orders, in the context of what they are saying, may actually apply ONLY to “orders against illegal immigrants” in their dog-whistle alarm to the illegal immigrants, and all the time those orders by the President were entirely valid LAWFUL orders, made in conformity of existing US Law.
Not one, NOT ONE, of these accusers of the President can cite what “unlawful” order has EVER been issued by the President in absence of a legal ruling to the contrary. Ruling after the fact does NOT apply to the validity of the action prior to the ruling. It only means that that particular measure cannot be taken again, unless the judicial ruling is overturned by a higher court.
You have to give it to the DC communist democrats, as long as they are free to push and promote their communist ideology, they’re going to do it and they will not stop until they are stopped. They deserve to be imprisoned or exiled from the USA.
Trump is good, but we need Pinochet.
From your comment: “... first they express the sentiment from the floor of either the House or the Senate.”
As far as I’ve seen, the comments made came from someone’s office, or stage, somewhere; and, as a prior serviceman I took them at face value.
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