{"id":144032,"date":"2026-01-12T21:39:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144032"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:39:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:39:27","slug":"us-senator-mark-kelly-sues-pentagon-chief-pete-hegseth-over-demotion-threatsunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144032","title":{"rendered":"US Senator Mark Kelly sues Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth over demotion threatsUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Senator Mark Kelly sued Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday, saying Pentagon \u200cproceedings to demote the Arizona Democrat from his retired Navy captain \u200drank violated Kelly\u2019s free speech rights because he urged troops to reject unlawful orders.<br \/>\nKelly, also a former astronaut, said in his lawsuit in federal court in \u2060Washington that the Defence Department\u2019s actions were retaliatory and violated the US Constitution\u2019s First Amendment protection of free speech.<br \/>\nThe lawsuit asked the court to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3339653\/us-senator-mark-kelly-sues-pentagon-chief-pete-hegseth-over-demotion-threats?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Senator Mark Kelly sued Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday, saying Pentagon \u200cproceedings to demote the Arizona Democrat from his&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144032"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}