Judge Blocks Hegseth, Pentagon Bid to Punish Mark Kelly

Thursday, February 12, 2026

A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon's efforts to censure Sen. Mark Kelly and lower his retirement rank in the wake of a video in which the Arizona senator and other Democrats called on service members to reject unlawful orders.

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NEW: Federal judge blocks Pentagon's effort to punish Sen. Mark Kelly over Democrats' "illegal orders" video.

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-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) Feb 12, 2026 at 1:45 PM

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The resistance to Trump increasingly draws blood.

Anyone who subverts the 1st Amendment needs to bleed a little.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-12 02:55 PM | Reply

Drink it off, Pete. Rub a little gin in the wound and get back in the game ...

#2 | Posted by catdog at 2026-02-12 07:44 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Womp womp.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-12 09:10 PM | Reply

Ah yes, the rule of law...none are above it in a true democracy, but in a fascist regime like Trump and Hegseth are setting up, the rule of law is less a rule and more an order to harass and hurt the opposition in any way possible.
Goodness knows Trump is vulnerable to that "rule of law" things...influence peddling is against the law, and one figures if Jack Smith were able to investigate his crypto schemes...there would be charges.

#4 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-02-13 07:34 AM | Reply

Maybe Kegsbreath can focus on keeping Texas safe from party balloons now.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-02-13 08:03 AM | Reply

If there is a God, and all Trump's efforts to subvert the midterms have failed, he will be impeached.

Next up, as a civilian and provided he doesn't try to plead insanity, will be the worst days of his life and with the same amount of mercy he has shown his victims.

Once retributions have been settled and paid, it's likely Trump will end up a pauper if the stress of losing his power and his money doesn't kill him first.

Trump will find out that he has no friends. Only shyster lawyer doing what shyster lawyers do.

#6 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-02-13 08:19 AM | Reply

The fact that parts of our justice system from grand juries to federal judges are actually doing their job and not allowing the Trump regime to get away with things like this gives me some hope for our country. The current make-up of the Supreme Court dims that hope, but some is better than none.

#7 | Posted by qcp at 2026-02-13 08:36 AM | Reply

the same amount of mercy he (Trump) has shown his victims.

#6 | Posted by Twinpac

The stories, some from the Epstein Files, accumulate that Donald has more than once raped and murdered children.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-13 08:40 AM | Reply

ZED

If proven true, all the more reason why Trump is knocking himself out.

Right now, he'd have to run into a burning building to save some orphans to change the opinion of the country.

He done did himself in with that stupid ICE scam in Minneapolis while the country was still zeroed in on the Epstein files.

All that and taking the advice of an idiot like Stephen Miller.

#9 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-02-13 12:16 PM | Reply

Trump will find out that he has no friends. Only shyster lawyer doing what shyster lawyers do.

#6 | Posted by Twinpac

He'll still have rabid followers like shrimpd*&^ and lfthndcuck who he'll stir to violence, attempting to burn it all down so nobody can have it.

This doesn't go away with the demise of Trump.

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-13 04:35 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Also, I wouldn't get too smug since it wouldn't surprise me one bit if critics voicing their opinions on sites like this have already been deanonymized and information out there ready available for rabid MAGA diehards to terrorize and target as they rampage at the loss of their Dear Leader.

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-13 04:37 PM | Reply

He'll still have rabid followers like shrimpd*&^ and lfthndcuck who he'll stir to violence, attempting to burn it all down so nobody can have it.

This doesn't go away with the demise of Trump.

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-13 04:35 PM | Reply | Flag:

You're an absolute ------- raetard. You see the comments here everyday. People calling for the president to take a bullet and you have nerve to talk about me being stirred to violence? You're about the sappiest little bitch I ever had the unfortunate chance of running to. No one on this site has called for violence but the rabid left. Go eat another bag of dicks, moron.

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-02-13 07:47 PM | Reply

"People calling for the president to take a bullet"

Is this different than you calling for Good and Pretti to take a bullet?

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-13 07:52 PM | Reply

"the rabid left."

Is there any other kind of left, or is rabid the only kind of left there is?

Republicans have been calling for and cheering for ICE violence since they occupied Minneapolis.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-13 07:54 PM | Reply

"People calling for the president to take a bullet"

Remember when y'all brought the gallows to J6?

Remember how hard you laughed when Paul Pelosi got attacked, and the ease with which you decided he was attacked by his gay lover?

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-13 07:57 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1