No Indicment For Dems Who Advised Troops To Refuse 'Illegal Orders'
A grand jury declined to indict Kelly over a video advising service members to refuse unlawful orders.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYCredibility rates Black America Web, which republished this story. The other scores rate the article itself.
Black America Web is a recognizable news publisher, but this page gives little information about its reporting process and relies on a Washington Post account for the central development. The article’s extensive editorial language also makes it difficult to distinguish reporting from commentary.
- Source type — A news publisher, though not a major wire service or newspaper of record.
- Author attribution — Credited to BlackAmericaWeb Staff rather than a named reporter.
- Editorial standards — The page offers little visible evidence of reporting standards or corrections practice.
- Source selection — The central grand-jury development is attributed to the Washington Post, but the article otherwise makes broad assertions with limited sourcing.
The article reports a specific grand-jury decision and attributes that development to the Washington Post, but it offers little independent evidence or response from the administration. Repeated insults and conclusory claims substantially blur the line between reporting and advocacy.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The article gives no meaningful account of the administration’s justification or response and uses extensive evaluative language to condemn it. The central development is reported, but the presentation is overwhelmingly one-sided.
- Counterarguments presented — No substantive defense of the investigation or response from the administration is included.
- Loaded language — Repeated insults and condemnatory descriptions dominate the article.
- Source diversity — The main sourced account is attributed to the Washington Post; opposing perspectives are absent.
The article uses strongly disparaging language about Trump and his administration while presenting the lawmakers as defenders of constitutional duties. Its framing is markedly favorable to the Democrats and hostile to the administration.
- Language tone — Uses insults including “woefully incompetent imbeciles” and “sycophants” for administration figures.
- Framing — Characterizes the prosecution as retaliatory and the lawmakers’ actions as defending constitutional principles.
- Headline — Frames the grand-jury outcome as a failure by the Trump administration.
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A federal grand jury declined to indict six Democratic lawmakers over a video reminding service members to refuse unlawful orders. The article presents the decision as a setback for the Trump administration’s effort to prosecute them and characterizes the case as politically retaliatory.
The article reports that a federal grand jury declined to approve charges against Senators Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin and Representatives Jason Crow, Chrissy Houlahan, Christopher Deluzio and Maggie Goodlander. The lawmakers had appeared in a video reminding military and intelligence personnel of their oath to the Constitution and their duty to refuse unlawful orders. The article cites the Washington Post for the grand jury decision and for its explanation that grand juries rarely reject indictments.
Community verdict
VOTING CLOSEDNo good or bad look here
This story reports what happened without casting Kelly in a good or bad light, so readers don’t rate it and it doesn’t count toward Kelly’s record.
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Slotkin's version of this story ↗Representative targeted in the attempted prosecution over the lawmakers’ video
Crow's version of this story ↗Representative targeted in the attempted prosecution over the lawmakers’ video
Houlahan's version of this story ↗President accused in the article of driving the prosecution effort
Representative targeted in the attempted prosecution over the lawmakers’ video
Representative targeted in the attempted prosecution over the lawmakers’ video
Part of a bigger story
3 OUTLETSA grand jury declined to indict Mark Kelly and five other Democratic lawmakers over a video urging service members to refuse unlawful orders. Left-leaning outlets frame the decision as a setback for a politically retaliatory prosecution effort. Center outlets report the failed indictment alongside Kelly’s lawsuit over action taken against him by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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