Wes Moore: Trump Has Authority Under Insurrection Act, But Doesn’t Have ‘Moral Clarity’, Fact Soldiers Have to Wonder if Orders Are Legal Shows Problem

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said that “technically, the president does have the authority to operationalize the Insurrection Act, in the case where something like that becomes essentially your last tool, right? The challenge is, is that this is not about the authority of the president. This is about, does it have both the moral clarity and the operational necessity for it to be real?” He also said that the fact that soldiers have to think if the orders they’re getting are lawful, “underscores the fundamental problem with the operations that are taking place right now, and the fundamental challenge that we are now asking our servicemembers to put themselves into.”

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