[CaptainCrunch]

The refusing to obey orders isn't a blanket thing that can be evoked out of convenience.


Right now the Insurrection Act is a legal law, there's nothing illegal about invoking it if Trump chooses to. Congress can't say anything about its use nor can the State Government. The law is specifically designed to allow quick action by the president to "Restore Order"


The Supreme Court probably wouldn't be able to strike it down in today's conditions.


If an officer refuses a lawful order such as this his career is over and he's probably at best facing a loss of his career and pension etc, at worse he faces serious jail time. Even the whole moral disqualification wouldn't work.


The only real way I could see an effective resistance to it is if for example the Joint Chiefs and every senior officer involved and their deputies resign enmasse.


Now if Trump invokes the act and includes an order for the troops to roll in and machine gun unarmed citizen, then you would have an illegal act because that's in effect murder and a war crime and soldiers would be able to refuse those orders on the grounds that they are illegal and immoral orders.


But merely saying nope to the Insurrection act isn't by legal definition allowed under the narrow interpretation of refusing an illegal order.