No worries for Mark Kelly. Eventually, he will regain his full pension (and his money back)

A three-judge panel in Washington signals that it is unlikely to clear the path for Hegseth to punish Kelly.

A federal appeals court panel signaled on Thursday that it would not clear the way for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to punish Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona, for warning active-duty service members not to follow illegal orders.

Two of the three judges on the panel that heard the case appeared likely to side with Mr. Kelly, a retired Navy captain and astronaut who has sued Mr. Hegseth, saying the defense secretary violated his free speech rights. That would be enough to uphold a federal judge’s ruling from February that the Trump administration had “trampled on Senator Kelly’s First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees” in seeking to penalize him for his comments.


Hegseth needs to be punished for vindictive prosecution.
 

A three-judge panel in Washington signals that it is unlikely to clear the path for Hegseth to punish Kelly.

A federal appeals court panel signaled on Thursday that it would not clear the way for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to punish Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona, for warning active-duty service members not to follow illegal orders.

Two of the three judges on the panel that heard the case appeared likely to side with Mr. Kelly, a retired Navy captain and astronaut who has sued Mr. Hegseth, saying the defense secretary violated his free speech rights. That would be enough to uphold a federal judge’s ruling from February that the Trump administration had “trampled on Senator Kelly’s First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees” in seeking to penalize him for his comments.


Hegseth needs to be punished for vindictive prosecution.
Punishing Hegseth would be vindictive prosecution.
 

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