Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the U.S. military have the legal right to refuse orders they believe are unlawful, but they risk violating military ...

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A group of six Democratic lawmakers with military or national security backgrounds released a video in November 2025 urging U.S. service members and intelligence personnel to refuse unlawful orders.

Charles "Cully" Stimson is Acting Director, Institute for Constitutional Government, Manager, National Security Law Program, and Senior Legal Fellow. Read his research. Six Democrat congressmen ...

As a lawyer for a conservative think tank, Ms. Bondi, now the attorney general, filed a Supreme Court brief last year saying service members who followed such orders were committing crimes. By Adam ...

Members of the U.S. military have the legal right to refuse orders they believe are unlawful, but they risk violating military laws of obedience if the order is in fact lawful, experts in military law ...