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President Joe Biden is signing an executive order giving decisions on the prosecution of serious military crimes to independent military attorneys.

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.

A series of sweeping reforms and updates to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) kicked in on Jan. 1, 2019, including the addition of some crimes, an expansion of victims' rights and ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Nathaniel R. Helms, author of No Time for Truth: The Marines, Justice, and the Haditha Incident, discusses the Haditha Incident and the military justice system … As reported, ...

Host Larry Mantle discusses the charges that face seven military personnel in their courts martial resulting from the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, under the Uniform Code of ...

In a call with reporters previewing the order, senior Biden administration officials said it was the most sweeping change to the military legal code since it was created in 1950.

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 over cases of ...

But since it requires a change to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, it needed formal presidential action. In a call with reporters previewing the order, senior Biden administration officials said ...