The house passed two legislative templates on Tuesday to assert congress control on the conviction policy of the Colombia district. The first part of the legislation that comes to a vote this week to revise the criminal justice in Washington DC.
The first legislative template are the DC defligence reforms in order to make everyone safe immediately, or DC Crimes ActWhat prohibits the district of the local officials to change the delimitation laws and restrict the ability of local judges to be more lenient with younger criminals.
And the second invoice, the HR 5140, lowers age, and for the youth criminal activity as an adult for certain crimes, can be brought to court for certain crimes, which changes the threat to 14 years.
The DC crime law passed 240-179, while HR 5140 225-203 existed.
During the course of this week, the Republicans will vote on several other legislative templates in connection with the DC crimes, since they expired Trump’s crusade against crime in the nation’s capital after his 30-day takeover of the city’s police.
The DC Crimes Act will use the DC Home Rule Act to prohibit the council, to increase changes to the convict laws, as well as a change in a provision that allows it to some convecturers and lowered the threshold to 18.
In addition, a provision is removed with which youth participants can be sent below the mandatory minimum below the mandatory minimum, and the Attorney General must publish a website via youth criminal statistics.
“The efforts of the Trump administration have shown that lawlessness is a choice,” Save Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), Senior Sponsor of the DC Crimes Act, in the debate about the house floor. “It is time that congrauce increases to constitutional obligation, complies with our constitutional duty and the crime in the capital of the nation is concerned.”
The arthritis of the Democrats, which gives congress more authority over the city, would not lead to a reduction in crime.
“People rightly agree to the crime in DC and at home in their communities, and Democrats naturally want safe roads. Short-term gimmicks or cheap hard conversation,” Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), The ranking member of the reform of the House Overnight and Government Reform, in the debate against the House Floor. “We know what works. The hands of violent criminals all keep us safer.”
Del. In the meantime, Elanor Holmes Norton (Dd.C.) spoke against the invoices by campaigning for self -government at the local level.
“The more than 700,000 DC residents, most of whom are black and brown, are capable and worthy of maintaining them,” said Norton on the house floor.
Later this week, the house will vote on the Law on the Protection Act of the District of Columbia, with which the DC police enable a larger authority to enable a suspect with the vehicle that flees in a motor vehicle.
It will also vote on the Reform Act of the District of Columbia Justicial Nomination, which has eliminated the role that the local government has in the selection of its local judges and gave the president the only whole.
The National Guard troops remain in Washington, DC, after Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) signed an executive regulation that approved the coordination between the local police and fedral offers, and the army expanded the approval of the National Guard troops in the city until November 30.