The Constitution Comes First: How Our Military Legal System Lost Its Way - Judge Bruce Tucker Smith

On this episode of STARRS & Stripes, host Al Palmer talks with Judge Bruce Tucker Smith, a 21-year veteran JAG officer and former administrative law judge, who reveals how military legal services were compromised by diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies that prioritized ideology over combat readiness and the Constitution. Topics they discuss:

• Most JAG officers (70%) enter service directly from law schools that promote leftist ideologies
• Military lawyers failed their duty by allowing illegal racial quota systems to be implemented
• The infamous August 2022 memorandum from Air Force leadership violated anti-discrimination laws
• Military attorneys must remember their client is the service itself, not individual commanders
• Too many career-focused officers lacked courage to oppose policies that undermined readiness
• The Marines' approach of making officers Marines first and lawyers second should be emulated
• Future reforms should include reconnecting JAGs with operational military experience
• Secretary Hegseth was right to fire JAG leaders who had lost the trust of their clients
• Character and integrity in military service means putting mission before personal advancement

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Read articles by Judge Bruce Tucker Smith:

The Woke Military: A Question of Paternity
https://starrs.us/the-woke-military-a-question-of-paternity/

Of “Independence” and “Guardrails”: The Military Left’s Lamentable Response to SecDef’s Firing of Service TJAGS
https://starrs.us/of-independence-and-guardrails-the-military-lefts-lamentable-response-to-secdefs-firing-of-service-tjags/

For more information about STARRS, go to our website: STARRS.US which now monitors the elimination of the CRT/DEI/Woke agenda in the Department of Defense and promotes the return to a warfighter ethos of meritocracy, lethality, readiness, accountability and excellence in the military.