What happens if you refuse to comply with an illegal order?
But say you do refuse to go along with a likely illegal order. What happens then? After all, your superiors—who, if you go high enough up the chain, will eventually be political appointees, subject to direct presidential control—presumably won’t agree that President Trump’s orders violate the law.
What happens if you don’t follow an order?
While some perpetrators in the Holocaust claimed, and may have believed, that they would be physically harmed if they did not follow orders to participate in mass murder, historian Doris Bergen notes that the Nazis did not harm those who refused: Germans were not forced to be killers.
Are there any exceptions to obeying an order?
Another exception, the judges said, would be if a person obeyed an illegal order to avoid physical harm, torture, or death. In their judgment at the Einsatzgruppen trial, the judges wrote: “No court will punish a man who, with a loaded pistol at his head, is compelled to pull a lethal lever.
Is it illegal to obey an illegal order?
But the judges at Nuremberg maintained that it would have been impossible for members of Einsatzgruppen not to know that murdering civilians was both illegal and immoral. Another exception, the judges said, would be if a person obeyed an illegal order to avoid physical harm, torture, or death.
But say you do refuse to go along with a likely illegal order. What happens then? After all, your superiors—who, if you go high enough up the chain, will eventually be political appointees, subject to direct presidential control—presumably won’t agree that President Trump’s orders violate the law.
Is it illegal to remove a civil servant?
Moreover, federal law (5 U.S.C. §2302 (b) (9) (D), if you’re curious) makes it illegal to remove a civil servant “for refusing to obey an order that would require the individual to violate a law.”
Why was a desk order clerk discharged from the company?
After a desk order clerk resigned, the claimant was assigned to work on the desk on a rotational basis without compensation. On several occasions the claimant refused to accept the assignment because his earnings would be reduced by the lack of contact with customers. Consequently the employer discharged the claimant.
Is it dangerous to carry a single action pistol?
More single action pistols have been carried, and for a longer period of time, than the modern striker fired pistols. Even over the hundred-plus years, single action pistols have been carried, there has never been an epidemic or cause of concern that carrying a single action pistol is dangerous.