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So I've been thinking about this a lot. Generally in places like, I dunno, the military which is under the DOD which is under the executive branch. There is instruction to disobey an illegal order from higher ups. But according to the definition of employee here & the requirement of item 7.

I think that if the president ordered an illegal act (which he cannot be charged for from the supreme court) for the military to enact. Then as federal employees, these forms of recourse would no longer be applicable as everyone in the chain of command would be forced to use the presidents definition of legality until a court case could remove/block that authority.

I hope that I'm missing something here but I think this gives him much more power than the rest of the order claims to be covering.