33 Democrats join Senate GOP in rejection of D.C. criminal code overhaul
Senate aides said in response that such a maneuver was not possible.
As lawmakers debated the measure, activists protested the Senate’s action with a demonstration outside the nearby Union Station. He added that the suspect was confronted and fled the area by running right through the protest crowd.Sen. Chris Van Hollen, from Maryland, affirmed his belief in statehood for the federal city and saw the resolution as violating the District’s right to autonomy.
Ms. Bowser has proposed a compromise rewrite that restores harsher penalties for certain violent crimes and delays the implementation date until 2027.After the votes were cast, supporters of the overhauled criminal code bemoaned that the law’s nullification as, among other things, a form of political scare tactic.
“If it was policing or if it was jail that would have saved us, then we would have already been saved,” one of the speakers said.
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