Pressed Pentagon News Today

To the Editor: We are fighting two threatening wars: Covid-19 and civil unrest. As currently planned, our next president’s inauguration will take place surrounded by heavily armed protection — 20,000 National Guard troops and assorted barriers, a ceremony conducted inside a virtual fortress. Nevertheless, safety for all is never guaranteed. How will the sky above be protected? As an alternative, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt did during World War II in 1945, the inauguration could be he...

Pelosi Pressed Pentagon on Safeguards to Prevent Trump From Ordering Military Action But short of the cabinet invoking the 25th Amendment or impeaching and convicting the president, it would be unconstitutional to defy legal orders from the commander in chief, experts note. Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California on Friday took the unprecedented step of asking the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about “available precautions” to prevent President Trump from initiating military action abroa...

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