Advocates for military justice reform want candidates for the U.S. Senate to to removing commanding officers from making charging decisions in rape and sexual assault cases.
The group Protect Our Defenders is pushing a bipartisan bill named for Vanessa Guill茅n, a . Guill茅n had told her family she was being sexually harassed.
Legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives .
Protect Our Defenders President Don Christensen wants Senate candidates to pledge their support to this kind of change in how the military handles these kinds of crimes.
鈥淚 know the Senate鈥檚 really distracted with a lot of other issues,鈥� Christensen said. 鈥淏ut that鈥檚 why it鈥檚 so important that we have this pledge right now to focus the Senatorial candidates on this issue.鈥�
Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn has voted against similar reforms in the past. His November opponent, Democrat M.J. Hegar, told 四虎影院 earlier this year she supports them.
Texas鈥� other Republican U.S. Senator, Ted Cruz, has long supported this reform.
