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President Donald Trump said the Democratic senators’ viral video urging service members to “refuse illegal orders” should be “punishable by death,” intensifying outrage across the political spectrum — and confusion about what that advice could actually mean under federal law.

While the lawmakers behind the video — led by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and joined by Sens. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and several Democratic House veterans and intelligence officers — framed the appeal as a defense of the Constitution, military legal codes make clear that refusing orders, even ones a service member personally believes are unlawful, can carry devastating penalties.

“You can’t expect a sailor to overrule Washington lawyers,” Rachel VanLandingham, a retired A

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