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Jan. 20, 2026

The growing war on military legal independence

The Trump administration's most consequential norm-breaking act may be its sidelining of senior JAG officers and targeting of Senator Mark Kelly for restating the bedrock rule that service members must obey only lawful orders.

Allan Lee Dollison

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The growing war on military legal independence
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It is fair to say that the Trump administration has done many controversial norm-changing things in its first year of its second term. Be it the birthright citizenship executive order, use of the $95

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