(a) No authority convening a general, special, or summary court-
martial, nor any other commanding officer, may censure, reprimand,
or admonish the court or any member, military judge, or counsel
thereof, with respect to the findings or sentence adjudged by the
court, or with respect to any other exercise of its or his
functions in the conduct of the proceeding. No person subject to
this chapter may attempt to coerce or, by any unauthorized means,
influence the action of a court-martial or any other military
tribunal or any member thereof, in reaching the findings or
sentence in any case, or the action of any convening, approving, or
reviewing authority with respect to his judicial acts. The
foregoing provisions of the subsection shall not apply with respect
to (1) general instructional or informational courses in military
justice if such courses are designed solely for the purpose of
instructing members of a command in the substantive and procedural
aspects of courts-martial, or (2) to statements and instructions
given in open court by the military judge, president of a special
court-martial, or counsel.
(b) In the preparation of an effectiveness, fitness, or
efficiency report, or any other report or document used in whole or
in part for the purpose of determining whether a member of the
armed forces is qualified to be advanced, in grade, or in
determining the assignment or transfer of a member of the armed
forces or in determining whether a member of the armed forces
should be retained on active duty, no person subject to this
chapter may, in preparing any such report (1) consider or evaluate
the performance of duty of any such member as a member of a court-
martial, or (2) give a less favorable rating or evaluation of any
member of the armed forces because of the zeal with which such
member, as counsel, represented any accused before a court-martial.