First Thing: Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war

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The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, will overhaul the US military's lawyers in an effort to make the army less restricted by the laws of armed conflict, according to two sources close to the matter.

How will the Jags overhaul do this? Sources say the aim is to retrain military lawyers to provide extensive legal advice to commanders to follow more aggressive tactics and be more lenient in charging soldiers with battlefield crimes.

Is this the only setback to Doge? No - this week, a federal judge in Washington DC found the body held so much power that its records may be subject to public requests and it should begin a rolling" production of records within weeks.