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EVENEMENT politique historique aux #EtatsUnis. Le sénateur démocrate du Vermont Patrick #Leahy, élu en novembre 1974 parmi la promotion du Watergate, ne se représentera pas en 2022. Il serait devenu dans le cas contraire le sénateur US avec le plus de longévité en poste...1/
Dans le Vermont, qui est aussi l'Etat de #BernieSanders, le retrait de #PatrickLeahy, qui avait présidé le 2nd procès en #impeachment de #Trump, ouvre la voie à 1 élection paradoxale pour le poste de sénateur...2/
On July 1, Senators Kirsten #Gillibrand, Senator Chuck #Grassley & Senator Ted #Cruz announced they will offer the bipartisan #Military Justice Improvement Act as an amendment to this year’s National #Defense Authorization Act. gillibrand.senate.gov/news/press/rel… #NDAA #MJIA #PassMJIA
From Senator Gillibrand's press release: "The Military #Justice Improvement Act would professionalize how the #military prosecutes serious crimes by moving the decision over whether to prosecute them to independent, trained, professional military prosecutors." #MJIA #PassMJIA
"Despite years of Congressional reforms, thousands of service members are raped & sexually assaulted every year. In many of those cases, the assailant is someone in the survivor’s own chain of command." -- #military #MST #MilitarySexualTrauma #MJIA #PassMJIA
