BREAKING: Senate Dems overwhelmingly vote with GOP to overturn controversial DC crime law
Chairman of the DC Council, Phil Mendelson, tried to pull the controversial crime bill away from congressional review, but the Senate indicated it was forging ahead with its vote.
Last month, after Biden indicated he opposed the resolution that would gut the D.C. law, just 31 House Democrats joined the Republican majority to pass it. Reports suggested that many Democrats who voted against it felt like Biden left them high and dry when he reversed course and said he would not veto it if it came to his desk.
"The White House put out a formal statement opposing us," McConnell said of the White House reversal."The vast majority of House Democrats voted against us, but then President Biden had an epiphany, he reversed himself. The public pressure was so great, the president now says he wants to sign the same Republican bill that he’d previously announced he opposed."
Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., told reporters after Biden’s about-face last week that he was"disappointed" in the president’s decision."First of all, I hope the Senate would not pass it, but I think it's pretty clear they will. And to me, the Congress should not substitute its judgment for the elected representatives of the people in the District of Columbia.
The proposed DC law would have lowered the maximum penalties for crimes such as carjackings and robberies, while raising them for murders. Nearly all misdemeanor cases would also include the right to a jury trial.
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