Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images In a video posted to social media in November, senator and former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly encouraged members of the military to “refuse illegal orders.” The 90-second video,which was put together by Kelly and five other Democratic lawmakers, was part of a broader objection to controversial US military operations against Venezuela, which have since turned from attacks on individual boats into an invasion, including strikes on the Venezuelan capital of Caracas and the kidnapping of its president Nicolás Maduro. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth was outraged after the video was published, accusing Kelly of “seditious behavior.” President Donald Trump piled on by warning that such behavior is “punishable by death” and implying that figures like Kelly could be hanged. While Hegseth has yet to make good on his previous threat of “court-martial proceedings” — which would see Kelly be put into active service to prosecute him in military court, per the Wall Street Journal — he announced last week that Kelly would be demoted and that his retirement pay …