Heinrich Demands Congress Finally Address Crisis Of Military Sexual Assault

U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joins colleagues and stands with survivors and advocates to re-introduce the Military Justice Improvement Act. The bipartisan Military Justice Improvement Act would remove the decision over whether to prosecute serious crimes from the military chain-of-command and give it to independent, trained military prosecutors. This legislation would professionalize how the military prosecutes serious crimes like sexual assault, and remove the systemic fear that survivors of military sexual assault describe in deciding whether to report the crimes committed against them. November 16, 2017.