Posted on 03/06/2023 12:53:14 PM PST by cotton1706
Washington, DC, Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) sent a letter to the U.S. Senate on Monday morning in an attempt to withdraw the city’s criminal code revision legislation before the Democrat-controlled Senate is expected to vote with the Republicans on a disapproval resolution that would overturn the bill.
“On behalf of the Council of the District of Columbia, I am withdrawing my January 27, 2023 transmittal of D.C. Act 24-789, the Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022,” Mendelson stated in his letter to Vice President Kamala Harris, the president of the Senate.
The attempt to withdraw the legislation comes after a disapproval resolution passed the House in February and was expected to be voted on in the Senate — and pass — this week. The disapproval resolution has enough support from Senate Democrats, along with Senate Republicans. President Joe Biden has also said he would not use his veto to stop the disapproval resolution.
Mendelson noted in his letter that the legislation is being withdrawn “in light of Congressional comments,” with a plan to work on a new version of criminal code revision and resubmit it to the House and Senate. He also acknowledged that withdrawing the legislation would prevent the Act from being considered by Congress and effectively kill the disapproval resolution.
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So they're scrambling to scrap their latest idiocies.
They are trying to pull it as a political thing. Their only desire is to remove any possible way for republicans messaging to show they are for law and order.
Why would Biden have a veto? Pretty sure Congress has exclusive jurisdiction over DC
Does not exist.
Article I, section 8 "Congress shall have power...To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of Government of the United States...
“The council’ legislative power
Does not exist.
Article I, section 8 “Congress shall have power...To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of Government of the United States...”
Well somewhere along the way a City Council was set up and vested with local legislative power, I assume by the Congress.
As I said, “in all cases whatsoever” was lifted from the 1766 Declaratory Act, one of the Townshend Acts that did so much to move Massachusetts to revolution.
It had a specific meaning, which the founders were well aware of, and it leaves no room for any phony “DC government”.
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