The discharge petition has become Democrats' go-to tactic in the GOP-controlled House.
Share on email A group of House Democrats on Wednesday announced an effort to go around GOP leadership and force a vote on expandingReps. Salud Carbajal and Lucy McBath announced in a press release that they are introducing a discharge petition on the Federal Extreme Risk Protection Act.
The maneuver would force a House vote after a certain time period if 218 lawmakers sign onto the petition, with or without the assent of GOP leadership. The bill would allow federal courts to issue orders removing guns from those deemed a risk to themselves or others and create a Justice Department grant program expanding such orders at the state level."Red flag laws should not be controversial ... new avenues for intervention, new resources for training, and better standards for data would help more communities and save more lives," Carbajal said in a statement.
That is because, in order to be successful, any discharge petition would require at least a handful of GOP signatures, and Republican leadership hasShare on twitter
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