After Joe Biden betrayed the idea of DC self-rule with his signing a bill to cancel their long overdue update to their criminal laws, it looks like Republicans are going to try to overturn Washington, D.C.'s new police accountability laws as well, because if cops cannot shoot black people with impunity, it is an affront to Republican Jesus.
House Republicans are preparing for the next round in their perennial boxing match against D.C. home rule, this time targeting D.C.’s police accountability legislation after Congress voted to block the city’s criminal code overhaul.
But whether their new effort succeeds will once again depend on Democrats.
The looming congressional examination of D.C.’s policing legislation is expected to test the extent to which Democrats support D.C. home rule, as most say they do — and how vulnerable they could be to Republican political attacks that they are “anti-police.”
The Democrats are spineless cowards.
Unfortunately for them, people do not like to vote for spineless cowards.
It's bad policy and bad politics.
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Not waiting to find out, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) penned a letter to House and Senate leadership on Friday opposing congressional efforts to overturn the bill, getting a much earlier start in lobbying Congress against the disapproval legislation after Mendelson and others acknowledged that murky and disunified messaging hampered the city during the previous debate over the crime bill.
This is a polite way of saying that Bowser vetoed the crime bill and was overridden, and may have encouraged Congress to overrule the law.
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The Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act of 2022 would make permanent certain reforms the city enacted on an emergency or temporary basis after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd in 2020, such as prohibiting the use of neck restraints. It also would expand public access to police disciplinary records and access to police body-camera footage in excessive force incidents. Additionally, the bill would require officers to issue Miranda-like warnings before conducting a search with a person’s consent, would prevent hiring officers who have committed past misconduct and would not allow the police union to negotiate police discipline, which the union strongly opposes.
This is really pretty weak tea, but the Republicans have a cudgel, and they intend to use it.
They don't care if it's wrong or if it's right.
Just do the right thing.
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