MANCHESTER, N.H. —

President Donald Trump has accused a group of Democratic lawmakers, including U.S. Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-New Hampshire, of engaging in "sedition" for making a video telling service members that they don't have to obey unlawful orders, but is it really sedition?

PolitiFact chief correspondent Lou Jacobson took a look at the law, and he said it doesn't look like the lawmakers are engaging in sedition.

Jacobson said there are two kinds of sedition in U.S. law: seditious libel and seditious conspiracy. Courts have been routinely ruling against seditious libel claims since the 1950s based on the First Amendment. The lawmakers in the video were urging that the law be upheld, so Jacobson said this wouldn't apply.

Seditious conspiracy makes it a crime for two or more peo

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