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UCMJ authority and military law

The UCMJ and related statutes shape military law and establish the baseline test for deciding whether an action is a legislative military offense

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What are the constitutional limits on punishing political speech by retired military officers who are also elected officials?

Retired commissioned officers who enter electoral office occupy a constitutional gray zone: the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) can, in theory, reach retirees and criminalize “contemptuous” sp...