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Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding the Signing of H.R. 777, The Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2019
whitehouse.gov ^ | 12/30/19 | Press Secretary

Posted on 01/01/2020 10:41:29 AM PST by ransomnote

This legislation authorizes the Department of Justice to provide resources to State and local law enforcement to help make sure that criminals are brought to justice. We know that DNA is much more likely than fingerprints to result in the identification of a criminal, yet thousands of rape kits currently sit untested in labs and on police storage shelves across the Nation. The Debbie Smith Act originally became law to provide local and State crime laboratories the resources to end the backlog of untested DNA evidence from unsolved crimes. President Donald J. Trump is proud to have worked with Congress, especially with Congresswoman Wagner and Senators Cornyn and Grassley, to achieve this bipartisan reauthorization.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: debbiesmith; hr777

1 posted on 01/01/2020 10:41:29 AM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

Not enough $ IMHO...but it’s primarily a state issue.


2 posted on 01/01/2020 10:45:54 AM PST by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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Thank you for referencing that article ransomnote. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"The Debbie Smith Act originally became law to provide local and State crime laboratories the resources to end the backlog of untested DNA evidence from unsolved crimes."

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Why can’t the states do their own DNA testing?

If the states woke up and put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that the feds cannot justify under Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, such taxes arguably stolen state revenues, then the states would be able to afford to do their own crime-related DNA testing imo.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

Remember in November!

MAGA! Now KAGA! (Keep America Great Always!


4 posted on 01/01/2020 12:29:33 PM PST by Amendment10
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Disgusting how behind they are. More new victims every day likely from the same perps.


5 posted on 01/01/2020 12:32:11 PM PST by bgill
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