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intrepidity

(8,548 posts) Wed Nov 26, 2025, 10:57 AM Wednesday

Please explain to me (re: illegal military orders)

SCOTUS said anything POTUS does while performing his job is legal.

Including ordering Seal Team Six to murder a political foe.

How is it legal for POTUS, but illegal for either the officers or troops carrying out those orders?

No doubt this is why POTUS said that any order from him is legal.

SCOTUS very clearly created this mess with that ruling. How do we get out of it now?

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Please explain to me (re: illegal military orders) (Original Post) intrepidity Wednesday OP

We need Congress to do its job, but they ignore Trump's illegal actions. surfered Wednesday #1

I'm not sure that the legality transfers to others. RandomNumbers Wednesday #2

surfered

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1. We need Congress to do its job, but they ignore Trump's illegal actions.

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Wed Nov 26, 2025, 11:00 AM

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The Founders did not envision this immoral collaboration .

RandomNumbers

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2. I'm not sure that the legality transfers to others.

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Wed Nov 26, 2025, 11:03 AM

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Let's say Trump murdered a political foe. TSF himself, not someone acting on his orders. And let's say somehow even this corrupt SC couldn't see that as "not an official act" and so considered TSF immune from justice for that action.

Now let's say TSF tells ME to murder that political foe - and I do it - would I be immune from justice because I was following orders from TSF? TSF's act in this case is only to order something to be done. He would be immune from justice for giving the order. But I am not TSF so I would not be immune, correct?

Waiting for the legal eagles here to set this straight one way or another.

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