When President Donald Trump claimed that members of Congress deserved the death penalty last week, he showed yet again that he doesn’t respect the rule of law.

The president turned to social media last Thursday morning to accuse six Democratic members of Congress of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH.” The commander in chief made this astonishing comment in reaction to a video these elected officials, all former members of the military or the intelligence community, had posted the day before. In it, they remind current military service members: “You can refuse illegal orders” and “no one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution.”

The Democrats’ message could have supplied better context, and perhaps spelled out what sort of “orders” they were worried about.

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