Washington Post: It's 'Startling' How Many Arrests Aren't Prosecuted in D.C.
Spencer Brown / Townhall Tipsheet
As Townhall covered extensively earlier this spring, Washington,
D.C.'s City Council attempted to force through a rewrite of the criminal
code governing the nation's capital that would have lessened penalties,
downgraded serious crimes, and changed how the city carried out
justice. The liberal D.C. Council passed its overhaul, then Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, vetoed the measure. The D.C. Council, however, overrode Bowser's veto in a nearly unanimous vote.
Congress, however, stepped in and used its authority to reject the new D.C. criminal code and — after botching his response to it and leaving more than 100 House Democrats out to dry on the vote — President Biden did not veto their resolution to strike down the D.C. Council's rewrite of the city's criminal code.
Even
though law and order advocates might have been heartened that the D.C.
Council's attempt to reduce penalties was unsuccessful, it turns...Read more and see tweet here.
