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Legal experts are raising lots of questions about the Pentagon’s investigation of Mark Kelly. The Arizona senator is among a group of Democrats appearing in a video that urges American troops to defy what the lawmakers are calling “illegal orders.” Some experts say the Pentagon is misreading military law to go after Kelly as a retired Navy fighter pilot. Others say Kelly can’t be prosecuted as a member of Congress. A group of former military prosecutors insists he did nothing wrong. President Donald Trump has accused Kelly and the five other Democratic lawmakers in the video of sedition “punishable by DEATH.”

Legal experts are raising lots of questions about the Pentagon’s investigation of Mark Kelly. The Arizona senator is among a group of Democrats appearing in a video that urges American troops to defy what the lawmakers are calling “illegal orders.” Some experts say the Pentagon is misreading military law to go after Kelly as a retired Navy fighter pilot. Others say Kelly can’t be prosecuted as a member of Congress. A group of former military prosecutors insists he did nothing wrong. President Donald Trump has accused Kelly and the five other Democratic lawmakers in the video of sedition “punishable by DEATH.”