On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said that “technically, the president does have the authority to operationalize the Insurrection Act, in the case where something like that becomes essentially your last tool, right? The challenge is, is that this is not about the authority of the president. This is about, does it have both the moral clarity and the operational necessity for it to be real?” He also said that the fact that soldiers have to think if the orders they’re getting are lawful, “underscores the fundamental problem with the operations that are taking place right now, and the fundamental challenge that we are now asking our servicemembers to put themselves into.”
Host Jen Psaki asked, “You and I have talked in the past about, just the fact that anyone who’s active-service military does not have any obligation, nor should they abide by or follow unlawful orders. And we’ve heard a number of people make that argument. Have you thought about what advice you would give to men and women serving now, who might be asked to be a part of the Insurrection Act, or might be — are being asked to potentially deploy to Minnesota? Are those legal actions that they should be abiding by? What advice would you give the servicemen and women being asked?”
