Mark Kelly

Every federal lawsuit has sort of a caption at the top electronically that describes what the cause of action is.

Here it says that Mark Kelly is challenging an agency action under the Administrative Procedure Act.

Likely what his claims sound in is basically saying that Pete Hegseth's decision to initiate a process that could demote him in terms of his ranking or deprive him of his pension is an arbitrary and capricious decision in violation of the Federal Administrative Procedures Act.

Again, we have not yet seen the complaint.

It's not available online.

the other thing that we know is he's likely to be represented by paul fishman paul fishman was a u.s attorney for the district of new jersey previously he has represented a number of other people who are facing adverse action from the trump administration it will be interesting to see if paul fishman indeed represents mark kelly in this lawsuit as we expect

He were going to prosecute me under the uniform code of military justice. I see this tweet. I take out my phone and I read it verbatim to Gabby. And by the second sentence she starts laughing. She laughed and laughed. She laughed through the whole thing. Because she realizes two things. One, that guy's a joke. And number two, I'm not backing down. Yeah.

When a reporter asked him about the strikes, Kelly said if the reporting is accurate, that second strike could have been illegal.

And leaders of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees have said they're going to be looking into these strikes.

And Admiral Bradley is expected to give a classified briefing on Thursday.

Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly says the president is trying to bully his critics, but it won't work.

Kelly defended the video that he and other Democrats with military and intelligence backgrounds recorded, saying it was a simple message that everyone must follow the law.

He said since the president and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth criticized him and the other lawmakers, threats against his family have increased.

The senator indicated he has not received any formal request for an interview yet, but would follow the law in any probe.

Deirdre Walsh, NPR News, Washington.

You can certainly go to the judge, advocate generals, the lawyers and have a discussion about it.

If you don't have time, you just say simply, I'm not going to do that.

That's against the law.

It puts a tremendous amount of burden on officers in the military, but that is their responsibility.

And they can figure out, you know, a reasonable person can tell something that is legal and something that is illegal.