I wouldn’t be so sure that e.g. Mark Kelly was implying that the President himself had given unlawful orders. (I am open to evidence that this is what was being implied, or that this actually occurred.) The boat double-tap incident in particular suggested that unlawful orders may have been given by someone in the chain of command. Minus any speculative or actual nth-order effects, I think it was a sensible time to remind service members not to follow unlawful orders.
And of course, the POTUS himself frequently declines to defer to laws that would constrain him, so the idea that he might give unlawful orders shouldn’t be surprising to people in any given political camp.
I wouldn’t be so sure that e.g. Mark Kelly was implying that the President himself had given unlawful orders. (I am open to evidence that this is what was being implied, or that this actually occurred.) The boat double-tap incident in particular suggested that unlawful orders may have been given by someone in the chain of command. Minus any speculative or actual nth-order effects, I think it was a sensible time to remind service members not to follow unlawful orders.
And of course, the POTUS himself frequently declines to defer to laws that would constrain him, so the idea that he might give unlawful orders shouldn’t be surprising to people in any given political camp.