 This ruling applies to states as well as federal courts because it's under the Article II of the Constitution, which binds both state and federal courts. So, yes, it would bind state prosecutions as well. Okay, we got a question posed by a retired general, Mark Hertling, writing on X, formerly Twitter, and he essentially raised what he said was a rhetorical question. Military officers are not supposed to follow an illegal order. They can refuse an illegal order.