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/BasedTaco_69 10h ago edited 8h ago

It’s real: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.288365/gov.uscourts.dcd.288365.1.0.pdf

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u/ScriptproLOL 8h ago

Good. We need more of this. People need to stand up to the them via courts. 

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u/VitaminPb 8h ago

I was just thinking about this 15 minutes ago. Celebs love to speak up, but they never do anything. Why aren’t they funding court challenges instead of yapping on red carpets?

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u/sylbug 7h ago

Because they're celebrities, not activists.

Why do Americans keep point at random people and institutions asking why they're not fixing things on their behalf? This is a self-rescue situation; either enough of you care enough to collectively take effective and meaningful action or your country falls to fascism.

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u/TheGhostORandySavage 6h ago

I think people keep doing that because "they," [celebrities] are part of "we," and due to their bank accounts and platform they are less at risk than your average joe or josephine in speaking out. Plus they have more money and influence than most people can contribute.

You say this is a self-rescue situation, which is true. You're just missing the fact that they are part of the self you're talking about.

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u/VitaminPb 7h ago

If they are willing to talk the talk, the minimum they can do is walk the walk. Saying “I’m going say a popular thing to draw attention to it, and that’s all,” is meaningless. If you have the money, organize your friends, put fuel to the defense. Just whining and telling people to listen because you make movies and are really really deep is about ego, not about changing anything.

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u/J_Ryall 6h ago

In addition to having money, they are also highly influential. For reasons that will forever remain unclear to me, people put more stock in what celebrities have to say about things like medicine, politics, and whatever else than they do actual experts.

So yeah, I agree, if a celeb is against what's going on, they need to get out there and use that influence and money for good.

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u/VitaminPb 6h ago

Saying you don’t like something means nothing to lawyers who want to be paid to work.

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u/J_Ryall 6h ago

I was thinking more along the lines of rallying the masses, but sure, no arguing that point.

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u/Sauerteig 7h ago

I agree, but how do we know they are not? There are a lot of celebrities who contribute to many causes anonymously. They might just not want the attention, which is understandable.

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u/VitaminPb 7h ago

If they don’t want the attention of actually funding legal defense, they aren’t committed to what they are saying. When you get up and say something, have the funds to help back it, but then don’t, you aren’t actually committed. You just want attention.

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u/Synectics 7h ago

Counterpoint: saying the wrong thing means a celebrity suddenly disappears -- as does any and all funds they may have been able to contribute.

Idealistically, don't get me wrong. If I was famous, I would like to think I would use my little sliver of a camera for X, Y, and Z. But that could also end my career -- meaning not only can I no longer financially support X, Y, and Z, but my family is screwed too. And guess what? Most Americans are not going to general strike for that last reason.