Arizona senator Mark Kelly warned that the Trump administration’s failed attempt to secure an indictment against him and five other Democratic lawmakers for a video urging service members to resist unlawful orders was a “master alarm flashing for our democracy”.

On Tuesday, a grand jury in Washington DC declined to indict the six members of Congress who posted a video last year reminding members of the military and intelligence community that they “can refuse illegal orders” – a message that Donald Trump said amounted to “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”

“This is not a good news story,” Kelly, a retired Navy captain, said on Wed

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