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Elissa Slotkin: “Military members had a duty to refuse illegal orders.”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Published | Video Starts at 07:19

Just to review the bidding, this started with a 90 second video in November that a group of us organized, all of us with military and service backgrounds, simply restating the law in the Uniform Code of Military justice, that Military members had a duty to refuse illegal orders. We said nothing more than everyone from Secretary Pete Hegseth and Attorney General Pam Bondi have said themselves out of their own mouths for that. (07:19–07:24)

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Asserts that military members are obligated to refuse illegal orders under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

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