THE FIGHT CONTINUES: New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was feeling pretty good about the prospects for her bill that would remove serious, non-military crimes from the authority commanders and instead place them under the jurisdiction of professional military criminal prosecutors.

After years of pushback from the Pentagon as well as lawmakers who had served in the military, the failure of the military to curb sexual assaults has pushed a bipartisan supermajority into her camp, and the Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act seemed on a glide slope to passage.

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