Saturday, November 15, 2025

The Orders Project -- The PBS NewsHour reports on military personnel's need for legal advice

NIMJ President Frank Rosenblatt was interviewed about The Orders Project on PBS's highly-regarded NewsHour program. Video and transcript of the segment can be found here. Excerpt:

The phone has been picking up a bit, our activity in the past three months. And some of these have related to the new military activities in the Caribbean. We are primarily getting calls, a lot of people who are tangentially involved. They aren't the people who are actually on the operations or are approving them.

But many of these are — they're performing some sort of role in between, a staff officer who's asked to apply their expertise. And they have been reaching out to us when they have been concerned that the answer that they're giving is — has been very disfavored. And they're feeling pressure from their higher-ups to convert their answer into something that is a little — to change a concur from — a nonconcur to a concur.

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