The military orders mandating the COVID vaccines were illegal. Will there be any punishment? From Robert W. Malone, MD, MS at malone.news:
I never thought I would see the day come when a high-level official in the US Government would admit to the sleight of hand executed by Peter Marks and the FDA. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has now publicly acknowledged that the US Government mandated that employees, contractors, and members of the Armed Services accept an experimental vaccine product or face either losing their job or receiving a dishonorable discharge from the military.
These military orders were illegal, in outright violation of established law, and were surreptitiously issued by the Pentagon. According to a Navy Captain-level JAG that I have worked with to support legal claims by Warfighter personnel resisting the mandates, and who carefully documented the chain of events (she has the receipts!), a Colonel working in the Pentagon who was about to retire was told to issue the orders, and then promptly retired.
The law that addresses the issue of mandatory experimental vaccines in the military is rooted in the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) framework established by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Under this framework, vaccines can be authorized for emergency use during public health crises, but they are not fully approved and thus considered experimental. According to federal law, an EUA vaccine cannot be mandated by the military, as noted in a 2005 case, Doe v Rumsfeld, where Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled that under federal law, an EUA vaccine cannot be mandated.
