Mark Kelly: call for troops to disobey illegal orders is ‘non-controversial’

Senator hits back at Trump administration after Pentagon launches investigation for possible breaches of military law

Senator Mark Kelly said it was non-controversial" for him and other congressional Democrats to implore military personnel to disobey illegal orders" from the Trump administration - hitting back at accusations of serious allegations of misconduct" leveled against him by the Pentagon.

I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial - and that was that members of the military should follow the law," the Arizona Democrat senator, a former US navy officer and astronaut who flew on four separate space shuttle missions between 2001 and 2011, told MS Now on Monday night.