Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by President Donald Trump began arriving in the nation’s capital on Tuesday, ramping up after the White House ordered federal forces to take over the city’s police department and reduce crime in what the president called — without substantiation — a lawless city.
If following presidential orders to do things that violate the Condition is ok, why can’t you disregard the president’s orders and adhere to the Constitution?
What makes one right and the other wrong?
You can disregard unlawful orders, in fact it’s expected of service members to do so. But the reality is they are just worried about bills like everyone else so they will fall in line since doing the right thing is hard.
I don’t have an answer, just showing that the wording of the national guard’s oath, being slightly different from the rest of the military, makes this a little more complicated than it should be