Biden supports Senate push on military justice overhaul, Gillibrand says
By Phil Stewart
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is 110 percent behind a legislative push to overhaul the military justice system to better serve victims of sexual assault and other major crimes, the bill s champion, Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, said on Thursday.
Gillibrand s remarks to defense reporters came nearly two weeks after Biden endorsed a key component of her legislation: taking decisions about prosecuting sexual assault away from military commanders and giving them to independent prosecutors.
But Biden and his defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, have stopped short of publicly backing Gillibrand s bill, which would take other serious crimes like murder out of the chain of command as well.
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