The GOP-led push to overturn Washington s criminal code reforms highlighted one very important dynamic in Congress: House Democrats are lemmings, apparently incapable of thinking for themselves.
President Joe Biden s pledge to sign a bill that would repeal a controversial Washington, D.C., crime law has drawn the ire of district statehood advocates who fear it may set their cause back.
Returning to his roots as a tough-on-crime Democrat, Joe Biden announced that he would sign an incoming Senate bill to overturn the D.C. Council s radical overhaul of its criminal code. Although the president couched his promise with the fib that he supports home rule for the nation s capital, he still earned plaudits across the aisle for refusing to let the D.C. Council which overrode the Democratic mayor s veto reduce sentences for violent crimes amid a violent crime explosion.