{"id":66187,"date":"2026-02-12T14:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/us-judge-blocks-hegseths-bid-to-punish-mark-kelly-over-illegal-orders-video\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:58:24","slug":"us-judge-blocks-hegseths-bid-to-punish-mark-kelly-over-illegal-orders-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/us-judge-blocks-hegseths-bid-to-punish-mark-kelly-over-illegal-orders-video\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge blocks Hegseth\u2019s bid to punish Mark Kelly over \u2018illegal orders\u2019 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge reprimands defense secretary over attempt to reduce Arizona senator\u2019s military rank and pension<\/p>\n<p>A US judge on Thursday blocked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-military\">Pentagon<\/a> from reducing Senator Mark Kelly\u2019s retired military rank and pension pay because he urged troops to reject unlawful orders.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary ruling by Richard Leon, a George W Bush appointee, is the latest setback for Donald Trump in his campaign of vengeance against perceived political enemies, which has drawn opposition from judges across the ideological spectrum.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/12\/judge-hegseth-mark-kelly-military-rank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge reprimands defense secretary over attempt to reduce Arizona senator\u2019s military rank and pension A US judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon from reducing Senator Mark Kelly\u2019s retired military rank and pension pay because he urged troops to reject unlawful orders. The preliminary ruling by Richard Leon, a George W Bush appointee, is the latest &#8230; <a title=\"US judge blocks Hegseth\u2019s bid to punish Mark Kelly over \u2018illegal orders\u2019 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/us-judge-blocks-hegseths-bid-to-punish-mark-kelly-over-illegal-orders-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US judge blocks Hegseth\u2019s bid to punish Mark Kelly over \u2018illegal orders\u2019 video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}