Lawrence O'Donnell Blasts Hegseth Over Legal Battle With Mark Kelly: 'Lawfare For Dummies'
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The "Last Word" host on Monday delivered what Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) called "a great summary" of his new lawsuit against the secretary of defense.
MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell on Monday commended Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) for suing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who recently announced that he will downgrade the retired U.S. Navy Captain’s rank and pension over supposedly “seditious statements.”
Kelly was among six Democratic veterans urging U.S. service members in a video last fall to defy “illegal orders,” and while this is essentially a duty explicitly noted in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, President Donald Trump seemed to suggest at the time this was “punishable by DEATH!”
“Senator Kelly has insisted on this program and elsewhere that he will not be intimidated by Pete Hegseth,” O’Donnell said Monday. “And today, Senator Kelly put Pete Hegseth on the defensive by literally making him a defendant in the case of Kelly versus Hegseth.”
Kelly’s complaint filed Monday in Washington, D.C., accuses Hegseth of violating his due process, as the U.S. Constitution specifically notes that it’s illegal for the government to announce a verdict in advance — which Hegseth seemingly did on social media last week.
The former Fox News personality claimed at the time on X, formerly Twitter, that Kelly and his peers released a “reckless and seditious” video, leading the Defense Department to launch “retirement grade determination proceedings” against Kelly under 10 U.S.C § 1370(f).
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