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You are being talked about, congrats on the ruling.
Do you think they will push conscientious objector and no more reserves for you?
We’ll see what the court says tomorrow.
Onward into the Breach, and Faciendum est.
But it would make it all the more interesting ... and bizarre. After all, if the Army rescinded the order, what is going to make any subsequent or previous orders any more valid?
in other words, how is the Major's reason for refusing the order actually going to be addressed. Logically, it cannot NOT be addressed. Because if it is not addressed, many more officers and men could come forward and refuse deployment on the same grounds. In other words, as National Guardsmen, they might be bound to follow their governor's orders, but not the Commander in Chief's?
And then why object to only deployment orders? If the President is ineligible, no Federal military order can be valid, from an order to make an amphibious assault on an enemy island to the kitchen duty roster in a nationalized unit.
And since the Major is a National Guardsman, what is the Governor's role in all this? Can (and more important, WOULD) a governor refuse to mobilize his state guard on grounds of Presidential ineligibility?
Good luck as the point man on this thorny constitutional series of issues.