Why Lisa Murkowski Wants to Overhaul the Military-Justice System

Stacy Kaper reports for the National Journal:

On Wednesday, Murkowski became the 16th cosponsor and fourth Republican senator to sign onto a bill introduced last week by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, that would radically reform the military-justice system. The bill aims to strike middle ground between taking the cases out of military jurisdiction entirely and the status quo. To do this, the measure would leave decision-making about prosecutions within the military-justice system, but remove it from the chain of command.

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