Trollminator wrote:
Trollminator wrote:
You can if they served previously. They would be recalled to active duty followed by court martial. Former social media influencer bone spurs may not be eligible for that treatment.
I’ll add that this is rare and questionable, would definitely be challenged in court, but retired officers are subject to the UCMJ.
And yes it is desperate of Trump but it’s yet another seditious act that will have serious consequences. Fat fk red necks everywhere are getting excited and cleaning their riffles in anticipation of the next order.
Private citizen implies someone who never in the military. But someone who was in the military can be court martialed even if they are retired. In Trump's case he was commander in chief, and not a private citizen, and would be subject to the same thing; in this Trump can be tried for sedition.
10 U.S. Code § 894 - Art. 94. Mutiny or sedition
(a) Any person subject to this chapter who—
(1) with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny;
(2) with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence, or other disturbance against that authority is guilty of sedition;
(3) fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which he knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
(b) A person who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, mutiny, sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/01/29/military-retirees-can-be-court-martialed-after-all-appeals-court-decides.htmlhttps://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/894