With the failure to indict Kelly, does that also wipe away Hegseth's threat to "downgrade" his rank and pension?

[Miles Archer]

I haven't seen anything that specifically addresses it other than this:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced plans last month to downgrade Kelly’s retired U.S. Navy captain rank and pension over his supposedly “seditious statements.” Kelly subsequently sued the secretary of defense, noting that Hegseth once agreed with the message in the video.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-kelly-wannabe-dictator-trump-doj-indictment_n_698da7b9e4b0967ff0046e6d?origin=home-latest-news-unit

[rampartd]

1. no, but

a warning to the jag officers working on kelly's demotion:

if you give capt kelly a chance to show up in uniform at his court martial you are making him your commander in chief, and you already know what he thinks about your following the stupid and unlawful orders that got you there.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Yes, per judge's order. Just announced live on Chris Jansing Reports by Fallon Gallagher. nt

“This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly’s First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees,” the judge wrote.

Leon quoted Bob Dylan to say, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

link: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5735641-judge-rules-against-pentagon-kelly/

Yeah, it's the Hill ... but OK ...