{"id":73204,"date":"2026-05-07T14:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/us-appeals-court-appears-skeptical-of-pentagon-bid-to-punish-mark-kelly\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:55:24","slug":"us-appeals-court-appears-skeptical-of-pentagon-bid-to-punish-mark-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/us-appeals-court-appears-skeptical-of-pentagon-bid-to-punish-mark-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"US appeals court appears skeptical of Pentagon bid to punish Mark Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case involves White House effort to censure the US senator over video urging service members to \u2018refuse illegal orders\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A US federal appeals court at a hearing on Thursday appeared skeptical that the Trump administration could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/25\/democrats-trump-fbi-intimidation-campaign\">legally punish<\/a> Mark Kelly, a Democratic US senator, over public remarks he made urging service members to refuse unlawful orders.<\/p>\n<p>Members of a three-judge panel of the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit criticized the government\u2019s efforts to censure Kelly, a retired navy captain and Arizona Democrat, over more than an hour of questioning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/07\/us-appeals-court-pentagon-bid-censure-mark-kelly\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case involves White House effort to censure the US senator over video urging service members to \u2018refuse illegal orders\u2019 A US federal appeals court at a hearing on Thursday appeared skeptical that the Trump administration could legally punish Mark Kelly, a Democratic US senator, over public remarks he made urging service members to refuse unlawful &#8230; <a title=\"US appeals court appears skeptical of Pentagon bid to punish Mark Kelly\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/us-appeals-court-appears-skeptical-of-pentagon-bid-to-punish-mark-kelly\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US appeals court appears skeptical of Pentagon bid to punish Mark Kelly\">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-73204","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\/73204","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=73204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}