Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon may prosecute Arizona Senator Mark Kelly after he joined a handful of other Democratic lawmakers to tell U.S. troops not to follow illegal orders. Here's NPR's Quill Lawrence reporting.
Chapter 2: What legal actions may be taken against Senator Mark Kelly?
Kelly, a former combat pilot and astronaut, joined five other Democratic lawmakers with military and intelligence backgrounds last week in a message to U.S. troops.
Our laws are clear.
You can refuse illegal orders. That's a basic tenet of military education, but President Trump called it treason and suggested the six Democrats be hanged. The Trump administration has faced legal questions about deployment of National Guard troops domestically and deadly airstrikes on boats suspected of smuggling.
Of the six in the video, only Kelly, as a formerly retired officer, can be recalled to face court-martial. And Secretary Hegseth said that's what the Pentagon may do after this review, though it would be rare if not unprecedented. Senator Kelly responded that he won't be intimidated. Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
A federal judge has dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan says Lindsey Halligan, the prosecutor who brought the charges at the urging of President Trump, was illegally appointed by the Justice Department. And here's Ryan Lucas reports.
What Judge Curry found is that Halligan's appointment violates a statute that governs interim U.S. attorney appointments, as well as the appointments clause of the U.S. Constitution. And because of that, the judge says in her ruling, Everything that came after Halligan was appointed, including the indictments against both Comey and James, all of that was unlawful.
And so she dismissed this case, but she did so without prejudice. And that means the Justice Department could, in theory, refile the charges, although it's unclear how exactly that would look. With Comey, there's an added complication, and that's that the statute of limitations has now passed.
Attorney General Pam Bondi was in Memphis, Tennessee Monday where she praised the work of a task force ordered by President Trump to combat violent crime. Cynthia Abrams of member station WPLN reports on Bondi's visit as some have raised concerns about the task force.
Flanked by Tennessee's governor and both senators, Bondi said that over 3,000 arrests had been made.
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