America’s political world lately feels like someone shook up a snow globe full of legal controversies, military disputes, and enough accusations of “sedition” to make even the Founding Fathers peek over their spectacles. First, we had Senator Mark Kelly telling U.S. troops to refuse “illegal orders,” then the Pentagon launching an investigation, and now the criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James collapsing because the prosecutor who brought them wasn’t even legally appointed. At this point, Washington isn’t just missing the plot. It’s rewritten it entirely.

Let’s start with Kelly. On the surface, his message is totally unobjectionable: troops should refuse unlawful orders. That’s not radical. That’s American. The Bible itself says, “We ought to obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29). No conservative I know wants soldiers rubber-stamping wickedness. But context matters, and Kelly didn’t deliver his warning from a quiet committee room. He delivered it in a political video, at a politically heated moment, while still technically a retired military officer. When you’ve worn a uniform and still fall under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, telling active-duty troops to refuse orders in a video aimed squarely at President Trump’s administration… well, you’re not exactly lowering the temperature.

The Pentagon’s reaction, though—threatening to recall a sitting senator to active duty to investigate him—sets off alarm bells of its own. Civilian oversight and military discipline is crucial, and Congress shouldn’t feel like they’re one uncomfortable speech away from boot camp. Washington has a gift for turning constitutional boundaries into a game of hopscotch, and this episode added a new square.

And then we come to the Comey and Letitia James situation, a case that didn’t just fall apart. It folded like a lawn chair. A federal judge tossed out the indictments because the prosecutor who filed them was illegally appointed. But before she ever arrived on the scene, career prosecutors had already reviewed the evidence and decided not to bring charges. Then those same cases magically resurrected themselves under this newly installed prosecutor who wouldn’t survive a basic HR onboarding checklist.

This is the part where conservatives and liberals both need to take a breath and admit something neither side likes to say out loud: due process matters as much as accountability. As Proverbs 11:1 reminds us, “A false balance is abomination to the Lord.” If the government can’t follow its own rules, then even the most righteous-sounding prosecution is just a political circus in judicial clothing.

Whether it’s Kelly’s blurred line between civic speech and military influence or the Justice Department’s attempt to prosecute Comey and James using an illegally appointed lawyer, the pattern is the same: Washington keeps trying to shortcut the rules to get the outcome it wants. Democrats and Republicans have both done this for years—different players, same game—and every time they do, public trust sinks and suspicion rises.

Here’s the bottom line: America doesn’t survive on vibes, personalities, or political victories. It survives on law, order, procedure, constitutional boundaries, and a shared agreement that no branch of government gets to become its own vigilante squad. If we want a country where justice means something, the process must be clean, the military must be apolitical, and prosecutors must be legally appointed. That’s the bare minimum, folks.

Until then, Washington will keep giving us drama when what we need is discipline, giving us spectacle when what we need is structure, and giving us political theater when what we really want is a functioning country. And honestly? At this point, I’d settle for everyone reading the instruction manual, preferably before pushing buttons they can’t un-push.