/12 And there will absolutely be somebody — some Ilan Wurman, some Jonathan Turley, some John Eastman - who will arise to slobber an oily veneer of legal authority on the President’s lawless threats.

/11 Trump is what he is: an increasingly demented jumble of personality disorders prone to barking out whatever angry stupid thing pops into his head. And he’s the “leader of the free world.”

But many politicians who took an oath to uphold the Constitution will echo his lawless dreck.

/10 One could argue that this is not a serious discussion, because there is no serious argument that it’s sedition or treason to tell the truth about the Constitution. But this is an unserious time marked by unserious and frankly evil people.

/9 To even begin to approach a scenario where such speech is unprotected, you’d need a specific imminent incident where someone was imminently urging servicemembers not to follow a particular order, not an abstract discussion of well-established law.

/8 There is no remotely plausible argument that it’s treason or sedition to point out that the military need not follow illegal orders. It is unquestionably protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.