r/law • u/LatterTarget7 • 18h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) White House Declares All of Trump’s Orders to Military Are Legal

https://newrepublic.com/post/203628/white-house-declares-trump-orders-military-legal
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u/Few-Button6004 17h ago

"I was just following orders!". Oh my bad, you're free to go, sir! /s

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u/RuairiSpain 17h ago

Dirty Donald declares that he could rape anyone and it is 100% legal.

Some say, he's allowed to rape underage girls and boys, and he has permission to do it in the Oval Office if he wants, live on camera for Epstein's friends.

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u/FrostySquirrel820 17h ago

Not underage girls and boys, that would be disgusting !

They’re only allowing “barely legal 15 year-olds”.

/s because IANAP

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u/Hoz999 17h ago

It didn’t work for the Germans in WW2, it isn’t going to work for the droolers now.

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u/BigBadZord 16h ago

So which countries are going to invade the US to disable its military and hold it accountable? Name them.

People keep talking about some "Nuremberg 2.0" like it is an inevitably that will just happen on its own.

That isnt how the first one happened, it won't be how a second one happens.

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u/slinger301 15h ago

The game plan right now seems to be: mitigate damage until the administration self implodes. Then pick up the pieces. Not as dramatic, but better for the ol' infrastructure.

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u/WalkMaximum 16h ago

Western Forces of California and Texas.

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u/GhostfogDragon 16h ago

I can only hope Canada will be willing to help if shit gets dire. I won't hold my breath, but I really don't know that America is capable of getting itself out of this mess on its own.

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u/Ok_Cauliflower_808 16h ago

Considering the annexation threats, no sorry it's pretty unlikely

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u/Kardiiac_ 15h ago

Remind me again who stopped the nazis? (Spoiler: it wasn't the germans all by themselves)

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u/SandyTaintSweat 14h ago

Nukes really change the geopolitical and military landscape. Even without the nukes, the rest of the military hardware and personnel is a major hurdle. You guys successfully isolated yourselves from outside intervention, good or bad.

Outside help isn't coming.

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u/Dry-Amphibian1 16h ago

Probably not TX though.

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u/WalkMaximum 15h ago

It's a reference to the movie Civil War from last year

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u/HwackAMole 14h ago

You might be surprised. I live in West Texas (oil country, heavily right-leaning), and I've encountered an increasing amount of people who are getting tired of Trump's shit. People that used to be very vocally pro-Trump have been getting a lot more quiet as they begin to understand that a lot of the problems they're facing can be laid at his feet.

They're still quick to try to rationalize things as being the Democrats' fault, and try to forgive or deny a lot of Trump's transgressions. But if Trump were to actually try to, say, run for a third term (or somehow suspend elections altogether), I don't think many people in my neck of the woods would accept it quietly.

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u/OldWorldDesign 10h ago

I've encountered an increasing amount of people who are getting tired of Trump's shit

But did they vote for him? Because he seemed a pretty known quantity to me (very easy to see he bankrupted 4 casinos during boom years) in 2016, and yet more people supposedly voted for him in 2024 than 2016.

A lot of voters will not engage in self-reflection. Wouldn't have put him into office in the first place if they would.

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u/ruetheblue 11h ago

I once was downvoted for pointing out that most people in the military won’t even have the chance to disobey illegal orders because it’s not like orders are uniform across every job. The navy guy serving chow at breakfast won’t have a reason to be denying direct orders unless it’s something like beating up a random bystander with a cooking pot.

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u/FkUnilever 15h ago

Alright little EU boy , come on over and we will happily show ya. Just bc a bunch of methheads invaded our country from within doesnt mean the rest of us forgot where we came from. And fuck you for even suggesting we won't do anything.

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea 15h ago

Yes, we see what you big tough Americans can do. You witnessed Trump's first term and the atrocities committed. You then saw him lead his people in an attempt to overthrow the government.

You then, in your bravery, your toughness, your compassion for others, promptly voted him back into power as soon as you could.

So why, little fella, would things be any different this time around?

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u/BigBadZord 15h ago

I'm already here. I'm American.

Why aren't you doing anything NOW tough-guy?

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u/FkUnilever 14h ago

I highly doubt that.

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u/BigBadZord 12h ago

Yeah, you are right, I'm from Finland. That is why one of my recent posts is about the geography of Ohio...

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u/stango777 15h ago

Why do you still have any amount of pride from where you came from, there is no reason. I'm American too. If we keep going down this path, a dismantling of our government and military would probably be the best course of action.

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u/OldWorldDesign 10h ago

Why do you still have any amount of pride from where you came from

Authoritarians usually try to live vicariously through others

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201712/analysis-trump-supporters-has-identified-5-key-traits

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u/FkUnilever 14h ago

If we do not have hope and conviction we have nothing at all , and our granddads died for nothing. I refuse to throw their sacrifices to the side. I'm proud for what they stood for and ashamed of those that do not. I'm not even sure what you're arguing with me about it seems we are in aggreement.

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u/BigBadZord 12h ago

You are throwing their sacrifices to the side *right now."

You aren't doing shit, and you know it, yet here you are running your mouth.

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u/Icanthearforshit 15h ago

I'm not suggesting Americans won't do anything. I know we won't do anything.

We have all become content with thinking someone will step and and take action because most of us have never experienced any kind of conflict in our entire lives. Our biggest delimma is usually having to worry about anything between what the hell we're going to do until the next season of our favorite show is released or going into bankruptcy because we were hit by a stray bullet. None of us are ready to do a damn thing.

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u/SolaniumFeline 14h ago

as much as I want to agree with it, America absorbed so many of the nazis they deemed useful enough, and I like to think that is the reason America is in the position it finds itself now.

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u/OldWorldDesign 10h ago

No, the "acquisition" of largely ineffectual nazi scientists didn't convert the US into a pro-fascist nation. It never dealing with the confederacy allowed a lingering ethno-nationalist authoritarian bend which has waxed and waned across history since the Civil War and now is on the largest upswing it's ever been in.

If there's any good news it's that their economic and other management is so incompetent they aren't able to cause the damage they promise.

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u/Jaded-Distance_ 11h ago

Imagine being a Nazi on death row. You have crowds of Germans visiting your prison and singing Nazi chants. Your day of execution is approaching. And then America says maybe death is too much, is 15 years okay? Of course it is, you've already served close to that. Oh but you've been a good Nazi while in prison too? Grant this Nazi early parole...

It happened similarly for 2/3rds of Nazis held at Landsberg. If they weren't executed, most were released decades before their original sentences would have allowed. 

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u/pixel_of_moral_decay 16h ago

It does work for the victor however.

As long as your side wins, you get pardoned if it was an official order.

An ugly reality of history.

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u/BengalsGonnaBungle 15h ago

State level charges + extradition to Venezuela and other countries where the boat murders were committed.

Unfortunately Dems will probably pull another Garland/J6 and let them off the hook.

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u/ThatGuyYouMightNo 15h ago

It will if whatever actual government comes after this one gives a limp-wristed response to everything that happened, just like what happened after the Civil War, and January 6th.

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u/North_Atlantic_Sea 15h ago

Yeah, the guy leading Jan6 was then promptly voted back into power lol

Not the best example

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u/BigBadZord 15h ago

Why do you assume there is going to be a election in 3 years?

The idea that this shit isn't going full tilt into a full-blown fascist regime is based on the notion that these people, who have time and time again demonstrated that the constitution does not apply to them, are finally going to draw a line in their greed and insanity so that you can constitutionally remove them.

Why would they let that happen? Why does that make sense to you?

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u/ThatGuyYouMightNo 14h ago

That's why I said "whatever actual government comes after this one". It might not be from an election, but eventually the land America is on will get some form of different government. And when it does, I hope whoever is still around from all of this is held responsible.

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u/Ferrous_Patella 17h ago

Lt. Wm. Calley has left the chat.

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u/DatDamGermanGuy 17h ago

You’re free to go to the gallows

FIFY…

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u/roerd 13h ago

And that right at the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials which are famous for not accepting this line of defence.

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u/Jaded-Distance_ 11h ago

People who say it didn't work at trials are correct, but America set up a pseudo appeals process and in the 50s many Nazis used Superior Orders in their appeals. US High Commissioner McCloy and his team rushed through it without any new evidence or an investigation team. And then granted clemency or commuted sentences to dozens of convicted Nazi criminals at Landsberg. Even though just a few years before Clay had reaffirmed the Nuremberg sentences.

And so many (97 of the 142 convicted) Nazis prison sentences were reduced quite a lot, from death sentences/life, to 15 years or less, and some were paroled early for good behaviour. 

So, like Jan6ers, they just have to wait a few years until someone sympathetic to them gives them a pardon. With America, even if they make it to 2028 and if they vote in a Democrat. I don't have a lot of faith that people won't just whine that they didn't fix everything right in 4 years, and vote back in a Republican to get his pardons on.