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Avishay Ben-Sasson-Gordis

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There’s a gap between must follow all legal and disobey all illegal that’s typically filled by a presumption of legality that this decision makes dangerously ambiguous

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Nicholas Grossman's avatar Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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That's a good way to put it (better than how I did). There's a general presumption that presidential orders to the military are legal, and immense pressure to treat them as such. Besides, the president can remove any who don't follow his illegal orders, and pardon any who do.

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