President Joe Biden announced on June 26 that potentially thousands of former military service members convicted under the military’s now-repealed ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy will be pardoned.
Biden’s action pardons service members convicted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice’s former Article 125, which criminalized sodomy. It was updated in 2013 to apply only to cases in which force was used. The administration estimates this affects thousands of discharged veterans.
“Today, I am righting an historic wrong by using my clemency authority to pardon many former service members who were convicted simply for being themselves,” President Biden said….