Thursday, April 30, 2020

Military justice and the election

“I will order the Defense Department to take urgent and aggressive action to make sure survivors are in fact supported and abusers are held accountable for their crimes,” [Joseph R.] Biden continued, proposing a commission made up of former military leaders and sexual assault survivors, experts and advocates to deliberate on such matters.

From this Forbes account by Andrew Solender

Mr. Biden answered "yes, yes, yes" when asked by Nancy Parrish of Protect Our Defenders whether "he would support 'moving the military justice system into the 21st century,' by allowing military prosecutors 'to make prosecution decisions for non-military crimes — serious felonies like rape, murder, and child abuse.'”

Considering the fact that these issues have been before Congress for years, something more definitive than yet another commission study seems to be called for, no? Will there be a plank in the Democratic platform on this subject? Will a potential Biden transition team focus on this?

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