D.C. Moves To Withdraw Overhaul Of Criminal Code After Biden Rebuke
After President Joe Biden supported it, a top Washington, D.C. official sought to end the controversial revision of Washington’s capital city crime code.
D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson sent a letter On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris (the president of the Senate) announced that he would withdraw the Revised Criminal Code Act, which was under congressional scrutiny, from consideration.
“Withdrawal enables the Council to work on the measure in light of Congressional comments, and to re-transmit it later,” He wrote.
Mendelson’s letters aside, Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–NY) stated to reporters that the upper chamber plans to vote despite Mendelson’s words. “They have a right to bring it up but there’ll be a vote on Wednesday,” He stated, according to NBC News.
While the reforms are credited with improving an obsolete system, critics felt it was encouraging wrongdoing through lowering penalties for specific crimes.
The D.C. Council last year voted in favor of overhauling the century-old criminal codes. Muriel Bowser, D.C. Democratic Mayor, vetoed criminal code amendments. However councilmembers voted against the veto.
The issue was not settled, however. Congress is authorized to examine any D.C. Council legislation before it becomes Home Rule law.
After the Republican majority in Congress voted in February to disapprove The Revised Criminal Code Act was supported by 31 Democrats Biden announced his opposition The Democrat-led Senate considered the reform last week.
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“I support D.C. Statehood and home-rule – but I don’t support some of the changes D.C. Council put forward over the Mayor’s objections – such as lowering penalties for carjackings,” Biden tweeted. “If the Senate votes to overturn what D.C. Council did – I’ll sign it.”
Bowser proposed targeted alterations To the amended code. This includes increasing penalties for carjackings or gun crime and restoring maximum penalties. It also delays its implementation up to 2027.
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