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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.
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.
If you're committing violent crimes, if you're committing any crime, we will find you, we will bring you to justice, and we will protect the law-abiding citizens in this country.
However, an investigation by the nonprofit news outlets ProPublica and MLK50 showed that Memphis residents have reported concerns over unnecessary arrests, racial profiling, and harassment by the officers. The arrests have also strained the criminal justice system in Memphis. The county mayor has requested more judges to move through cases faster, and the county jail is facing overcrowding. For NPR News, I'm Cynthia Abrams in Nashville.
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has been released from a Chicago hospital. A family statement issued through his Rainbow Push coalition says he was released Monday and remains in stable condition. Jackson is 84. He was hospitalized nearly two weeks ago. Jackson was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2013. His family says his diagnosis changed in April to progressive supranuclear palsy, a neurological disorder. One of the last known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre has died at the age of 111. Elizabeth Caldwell of member station KWGS reports on the announcement by Tulsa's first black mayor.
Mayor Monroe Nichols wrote that the city mourns the loss of Viola Ford Fletcher. Mother Fletcher, as she was known, was just seven when her family fled the racist attack that destroyed the prosperous neighborhood known as Black Wall Street. She later testified before a House committee.
I will never forget the violence of the white mob.
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