San Antonio Express-News Commentary: Gillibrand fights for military justice reform
Hearst Washington Bureau Chief writes in San Antonio Express-News:
In May, she introduced landmark legislation to transfer the decision-making on such cases from the chain of command to trained military investigators and prosecutors.
In June, she received the legislative equivalent of a paternalistic pat on the head from Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, a fellow Democrat, who substituted a less controversial reform provision that had the support of the military brass and rammed it through the committee.
Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, didn’t get mad. She got to work.
Unfazed by the fact her bill had been gutted, she took the original version back to senator after senator, and made her case.
