{"id":891870,"date":"2026-02-12T05:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/hegseths-fight-against-kelly-moves-into-untested-legal-waters\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:12:12","slug":"hegseths-fight-against-kelly-moves-into-untested-legal-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/hegseths-fight-against-kelly-moves-into-untested-legal-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth\u2019s fight against Kelly moves into untested legal waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is forgoing a promised court-martialing and taking a behind-closed-doors track to attempt to punish Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.). The administrative move \u2014 which seeks to reduce Kelly\u2019s retirement rank and military pension \u2014 is the latest in the bitter back-and-forth between the Trump administration and the retired Navy captain after he&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5682489-hegseth-kelly-rank-reduction-fight\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Ellen Mitchell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is forgoing a promised court-martialing and taking a behind-closed-doors track to attempt to punish Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.). The administrative move \u2014 which seeks to reduce Kelly\u2019s retirement rank and military pension \u2014 is the latest in the bitter back-and-forth between the Trump administration and the retired Navy captain after he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":891871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1632,140164,192],"tags":[8682,140163],"class_list":{"0":"post-891870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fight","8":"category-hegseths","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-fight","11":"tag-hegseths"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}