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President Joe Biden pledged to use his clemency powers to right "an historic wrong." Why did it fall so short of its promise?
WASHINGTON – Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand's effort to enact a broad-ranging set of reforms in the military justice system will apparently have to wait until next year or beyond, as congressional ...
In retrospect, Navy Lt. Cmdr. James Dickerson admits he shouldn’t have posted the TikTok video of him in uniform, lip-synching a profanity-laced parody of Frozen’s “Let it Go” and giving ...
The final step needed to change the Uniform Code of Military Justice under the law was a presidential executive order. Lawmakers directed Biden to issue it by December 2023.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden gave final approval Friday to the biggest reshaping in generations of the country’s Uniform Code of Military Justice, stripping commanders of their authority ...
And it was included in the annual defense bill last year. But since it requires a change to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, it needed formal presidential action.
President Joe Biden on Friday ordered a historic change to the Uniform Code of Military Justice by transferring key decision-making authorities outside the military chain of command in cases of ...
President Biden on Friday is poised to sign a new executive order that will clear the way for major changes to the Uniform Code of Military Justice for the first time in decades, taking authority ...