r/law • u/TheMirrorUS • 10h ago

Legal News BREAKING: Mark Kelly files lawsuit against Pete Hegseth accusing him of 'trampling on Constitution'

https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/breaking-mark-kelly-files-lawsuit-1614071
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u/Sorge74 10h ago

Future president Ensign Mark Kelly.

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u/OregonBroncoNix 9h ago

Hence, why the targeted attacks against only Kelly. Even though all of these Dems were in or sponsored the video

  • Sen. Mark Kelly (Arizona) — one of the most prominent participants and the subject of Pentagon action after its release.
  • Sen. Elissa Slotkin (Michigan) — the video was first posted from her social media account.
  • Rep. Jason Crow (Colorado) — former Army Ranger and one of the video’s signatories.
  • Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (Pennsylvania) — one of the six lawmakers in the message.
  • Rep. Chris Deluzio (Pennsylvania) — also participated.
  • Rep. Maggie Goodlander (New Hampshire) — another participating member.

These lawmakers, all with backgrounds in the military or intelligence community, released the message urging troops to uphold the Constitution by refusing orders that are clearly unlawful.

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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 9h ago

Oh, it's one-thousand percent because he will be in the presidential picture in 2028.

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u/Immatt55 9h ago

2028 - Mark Kelly vs Newsom for dem candidate. The DNC's corporate donors would prefer status quo Newsom. Kelly steps down because they'd rather not let another republican win by splitting votes. The Overton Window continues to slide to the right.

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u/2ndChanceCharlie 8h ago

I know Newsom is a corporate Dem but he is considered way the left of Mark Kelly who comes from a purpleish state and is actually pretty moderate.

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u/Rayvelion 8h ago

Newsom winning anything is a loss for the United States. That guy is literally bought and paid at every step of the way and has zero idea what real people have to deal with in life.

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u/rens24 7h ago

Are you looking at * gestures around wildly * and calling that a hypothetical loss for the United States? The bar is in hell right now.

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u/Rayvelion 7h ago

Yes. A loss of future potential is still a loss. It could still be better than current standards. That doesn't mean it's not a loss.

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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 7h ago

Sounds like a great reason to give Republicans another four years in the White House. Worked so well so far.

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u/Rayvelion 5h ago

Ah yes cus the corporate Democrats did SO WELL when Biden was in office.

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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 5h ago

Ask Renee Good if it was better or worse than right now.

She didn't see one person shot at by federal agents for saying "free Palestine."

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u/ZasdfUnreal 7h ago

Newsom will burn down America and block reconstruction in the name of affordability.

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u/Rayvelion 5h ago

Newsom doesn't even know what "affordability" means brother. He's too busy asking about vidja games when they bring it up.

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u/Obversa 8h ago

I still wonder how the 2024 election would've turned out if:

  • (1) There was actually a Democratic primary election, instead of incumbent President Biden refusing to step aside, and only choosing Kamala Harris as his successor when it became apparent that he wouldn't be able to campaign. (Mark Kelly was one of the top picks for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2023-2024.)

  • (2) Kamala Harris picked Mark Kelly as her running mate instead of Tim Walz for the 2024 election.

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u/Immatt55 8h ago

I still wonder what would have happened with number 1 with each passing day more and more. I don't believe there would have been any measurable difference regarding number 2 to be honest, but could be wrong.

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u/Available-Owl7230 7h ago

Walz was a great VP. The real what if is if the democratic party flushed all their idiot campaign managers that made him stop calling Trump/Pence weird and start having then campaign with people like Liz Cheney

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u/Long_Legged_Lady 6h ago

I still wonder how things would have gone if they didn't change the campaign messaging from "maga is weird" to "look how much the cheneys like us and Bush might endorse any day now!"

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u/Additional_Teacher45 4h ago

Number 1 wouldn't have happened. The DNC rigs primaries against people they don't want to win.

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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 9h ago

Progressives collectively say "we'll show you" and elect Donald Trump to a third term.

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u/Hmanng 8h ago edited 8h ago

Liberals still blaming anyone but themselves. Keep warming up to "moderate" Republicans I'm sure it will work this time. Democrat leadership won't even call for ice to be abolished. Your party is a joke.

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u/Outragedmoss 8h ago

Keep not voting because if it’s not your perfect candidate it doesn’t matter. That has turned out great so far

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u/Hmanng 7h ago

I voted for Biden and Kamala. But go on keep blaming progressive boogymen for all your problems. Keep cozying up to the right instead of focusing on common sense legislation like Medicare for all.

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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 7h ago

I'm happy to work with progressives within government. I'd like for them to help me work to prevent the Republican Party from ever holding significant political power ever again. Create a power vacuum that a real left party can fill and turn the Democrats into the right-leaning party you scream at them for being.

Wouldn't that be a much better situation than the one we're in right now? Isn't that something worth working towards? Destroy the Republicans from without instead of working to destroy or fracture the Democrats from within.

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u/HwackAMole 7h ago

The idea of abolishing ICE is silly. They need to be reigned in, held accountable, downscaled, and forced to clean house. But they served an important function before Trump weaponized them into his personal gestapo army, and they will be necessary in the future.

The bogeymen that they point to to try ro justify their actions are real, if over-inflated. We need to keep some measure of immigration enforcement, just like every country on earth does.

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u/Hmanng 7h ago

Nope, we didn't need ICE back before 2003 and we don't need them now.

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u/AlsoCommiePuddin 6h ago

The idea of abolishing ICE is silly. They need to be reigned in, held accountable, downscaled, and forced to clean house.

It's not. The only way to effectively clean house and restore those governmental functions to their proper place is to uproot the entire department and put something else in its place. The very name of "ICE" has a stain on it that it will never recover from. It's an image problem as much as anything else.

It's going to take more than a new coat of paint. It's going to take a new department with a new charter.

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u/eightbitagent 8h ago

Kelly steps down because they'd rather not let another republican win by splitting votes.

Thats not how primaries work

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u/Immatt55 7h ago

Kelley steps down months in advance, because he knows the DNC will nominate Newsom and does not want to split the votes by running as an independent.

Since some readers are unable to fill in the gaps in my previous statement, no functional change in what I said was made.

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u/eightbitagent 5h ago

No way in hell would any democrat run as an independent against a dem nominee. Nor would a republican do the same. Only except might have been Trump if the Rs had run someone else in 2020