It's Thursday, February 13th, 2026 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the gist.

I'm Mike Peska.

It was a great order on two levels from Judge Richard Leon of the District Court of the

District of Columbia.

A couple districts there.

And he laid it down the strict dissing, did the district court judge.

All right, that's stretch district, strict diss of Pete Heggseth.

Because what Pete Heggseth was trying to do was to strip Senator Mark Kelly, also Captain

Mark Kelly, of rank and pay.

And this would not fly, said Justice Leon. Senator Kelly

does have First Amendment rights. And I even tweeted where I went through the judge's ruling.

I look for everything that ended in an exclamation. There was a lot. Defendants respond that

Senator Kelly is seeking to exempt himself from the rules of

military justice that Congress has expressly made applicable to retired service members.

Horse feathers! In other words, the horse feathers argument was a description of what

Hegsseth was saying. If legislators do not feel free to express their views and the views of their constituents without fear of reprisal from the executive or representative system of government cannot function.

Simply put, defendants, remember it was Kelly brought the action, so Heggseth was defending it.

Defendant's response is anemic explanation.

This is a troubling development of free country.

Exclamation!

And then later, please!

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