A DC Grand Jury has just REFUSED to indict Sen. Mark Kelly, Elissa Slotkin, and others

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/2021403709297541254

[Timber Rattler]

I don't know why anybody expected otherwise.  None of this was ever going to happen, and there will be NO court martial, despite Trump's wishful thinking.

[DB]

Why would this have been filed in anything other than military court?

[The_Reader_David]

Good.  There are such things as illegal orders, which are not to be followed, and reminding members of our armed forces of that fact is not only not seditious and a proper exercise of free speech rights, it arguably supports the rule of law, which I remind those who have embraced MAGA as a slogan is part of what made America great to begin with. 

That President Trump objected might reasonably lead one to conclude that he harbors the desire to issue illegal orders and have the followed.

[Cyber Liberty]

Yes, Mark Kelly's motives are purely altruistic.   

[Smokin Joe]

Someone took this behaviour out of context and refused to see it was intended to cause doubt and possible problems in the chain of command.
They all knew exactly what they were doing.
They are all lower than snake sh*t in my estimation, indictment or no.

[Bigun]

Someone took this behaviour out of context and refused to see it was intended to cause doubt and possible problems in the chain of command.
They all knew exactly what they were doing.
They are all lower than snake sh*t in my estimation, indictment or no.

 

[Timber Rattler]

Yes, Mark Kelly's motives are purely altruistic.   

Nobody with any sense is questioning that he's a traitorous slimeball but unfortunately the law and legal process is on his side.  And no military court is going to touch this with a 10km pole.

[DefiantMassRINO]

The Grand Jury has spoken.  I trust juries more than I trust judges.

[DB]

Good.  There are such things as illegal orders, which are not to be followed, and reminding members of our armed forces of that fact is not only not seditious and a proper exercise of free speech rights, it arguably supports the rule of law, which I remind those who have embraced MAGA as a slogan is part of what made America great to begin with. 

That President Trump objected might reasonably lead one to conclude that he harbors the desire to issue illegal orders and have the followed.

I call on you not to beat your wife.

See how that works?

[Fishrrman]

A "D.C." grand jury.
Really, folks...
What did you expect?

[mystery-ak]

‘Seditious Six’ Democrat lawmakers probed by Trump threaten legal battle
House Democrat threatens legal action after failed sedition probe over video urging troops to refuse illegal orders
By Leo Briceno Fox News
Published February 11, 2026 5:09pm EST

The six Democrats who urged U.S. service members to "refuse illegal orders" are threatening a legal battle with President Donald Trump over what they see as a "weaponization" of the Department of Justice (DOJ).

On Wednesday, four House Democrats — Reps. Jason Crow, D-Colo.; Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H.; Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.; and Chris Deluzio, D-Pa. — hinted they had prepared for a case of their own after they escaped an indictment Tuesday evening.

"Yesterday, the Trump Department of Justice tried and failed to indict us on criminal charges based on a video that we filmed last year simply reminding our fellow service members to follow the law and the Constitution," Crow said. "They failed, and they will always fail.

"We are taking names," Crow said. "We are creating lists. My lawyers just sent a letter today to the Department of Justice, putting them on notice that there will be costs."

Crow did not expand on what kind of suit he would pursue.

The "Seditious Six," as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth called the group of military veteran Democrats, posted a video to social media in November 2025 urging service members to ignore commands that violated the Constitution.

"Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution. Right now, the threats coming to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad but from right here at home," they urged. "Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution."

In response, the Department of Justice launched a probe of the group, weighing whether their calls had amounted to sedition.

After those charges fell flat Tuesday, Democrats in the Senate who had also participated in the video similarly blasted the DOJ’s probe.

more
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/seditious-six-dem-lawmakers-probed-trump-threaten-legal-battle

[dfwgator]

Forget it, Jake, it's DC.

[libertybele]

Surprised anyone?  Disheartened yes, but surprised, no.

[Bigun]

Below SCOTUS, which is constitutionally mandated, the entire federal court system needs a complete overhaul IMHO.

[libertybele]

Below SCOTUS, which is constitutionally mandated, the entire federal court system needs a complete overhaul IMHO.

IMHO you are 110% correct!!!   

[Hoodat]

Why would this have been filed in anything other than military court?

Because Republicans want to make it look like they’re doing something when really they’re not.

[Cyber Liberty]

Because Republicans want to make it look like they’re doing something when really they’re not.

Only Mark Kelly is within the Jurisdiction of the military courts.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Below SCOTUS, which is constitutionally mandated, the entire federal court system needs a complete overhaul IMHO.

The Democrats are going to overhaul SCOTUS when they get into power, making it twice as large!

[mystery-ak]

Dem Rep. Crow: ‘There Is Going to Be Accountability’ for Jeanine Pirro

Wednesday on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) said he would hold District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro accountable for seeking and failing to bring indictments against him and several other Democratic lawmakers over a video on military orders.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/02/11/dem-rep-crow-there-is-going-to-be-accountability-for-jeanine-pirro/

[verga]

A "D.C." grand jury.
Really, folks...
What did you expect?

[Bigun]

Thomas Jefferson
letter to Judge Spencer Roane — 1821
Category: Judiciary

"The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them."


Thomas Jefferson
letter to Monsieur A. Coray — 1823
Category: Judiciary

"At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account."


Thomas Jefferson
letter to Thomas Ritchie — 1820
Category: Judiciary

"The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone."


Thomas Jefferson
letter to Judge Spencer Roane — 1819
Category: Judiciary

"The Constitution...is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please."

[Timber Rattler]

Jefferson was right, as was "Brutus," who warned about the unaccountable judiciary in the Anti-Federalist Papers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutus_(antifederalist)

[Bigun]

Jefferson was right, as was "Brutus," who warned about the unaccountable judiciary in the Anti-Federalist Papers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutus_(antifederalist)

Indeed!

[Timber Rattler]

Meanwhile...

Judge blocks Pentagon from downgrading Sen. Mark Kelly's military rank, pay

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-blocks-pentagon-from-downgrading-sen-mark-kellys-military-rank-pay/

A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon from downgrading the military retirement rank and pay of Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, finding that the government had "trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms."

A retired Navy captain, Kelly drew the Trump administration's ire after he and five other Democratic lawmakers posted a video urging members of the military to "refuse illegal orders."

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon's order prohibits the Defense Department and the Trump administration from taking any adverse action against Kelly to reduce his retirement rank and pay.

"This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees," Leon wrote. "After all, as Bob Dylan famously said, 'You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.'"

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on social media that the ruling would be "immediately appealed."

EXCERPT