Curated for #informationwar (by @stevescoins)
Relevance: The oath to defend the Constitution
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A note from @stevescoins (too lazy to jump over to my account)...
The first part of the oath is to defend the Constitution, therefore, no order that violates the Constitution, whether it is from the President or not, is valid.

When something is ambiguous, the President's orders should carry the day, but when an order clearly violates the purpose of the Constitution, the number one priority of the Constitution being the protection of the citizen, the order becomes instantly invalid.

I'll put this in the example of LE, since they swear a similar oath to defend the Constitution, and the situation comes up far more often. No "stand down" order is valid, period, since it violates the prime purpose of the Constitution, which is to defend citizens.

That doesn't mean that LE has to do things that are impossible to do, but it does mean LE should arrest politicians that issue "stand down" orders when citizens are in danger and LE can act.