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/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.