Military swears an oath to the constitution not to the president.
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meco03211@lemmy.world 2 months agoA big distinction is that it’s unlawful to follow unconstitutional orders. This is to hopefully prevent us ending up like the Nazis and a bunch of people trying to claim “I was just following orders”. So it oversimplifies the situation to say “disobeying the president” is unconstitutional. There’s nuance.
TornadoRex@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 2 months ago
But that’s the crisis right? The president would almost never say “go violate the constitution.” They would say “go arrest and occupy Congress, THEY violated the constitution “