Democrats introduce joint resolution to end Trump’s ‘lawless’ DC takeover | Washington DC
Democratic MPs have made a joint decision to end Trump’s illegal and unprecedented movements to federalize Trump’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) at Washington DC.
Representative Jamie Raskin is a member of the Assembly Judicial Committee; Eleanor Holmes Norton Eleanor Holmes Norton; And the ranking member of the Surveillance and Government Reform Committee Committee, Robert Garcia introduced the decision on Friday and called the Land Rule Law of 1973.
The decision says that Trump’s police force does not show the existence of any special emergency to guarantee the federalization. In the Senate, Chris Van Hollen from Maryland will sponsor the decision.
Raskin, a statement shared with Guardian, “the only emergency here, Jeffrey Epstein close friendship and stubborn Epstein file despite the promise of releasing the release of an increasing public relations emergency is an unlawful president,” he said.
The 1973 home rule law states that DC residents have the authority to manage their local affairs, including a mayor and local council members. However, since the DC is accepted as a “federal region rather than a state, the President and the Congress are given legal ability to manage local laws and local tax dollars.
Pursuant to the Law, the President has the authority to temporarily take over the DC Police Department under the “Special Conditions of Emergency” for “federal purposes .. On Monday, Trump signed an executive order that provides direct control of MPD with a highly controversial and suspicious movement.
However, MPs argue that special conditions are not met and that the Congress has the authority to terminate such emergency control with a joint decision.
Early on Friday evening, a significant development, Washington DC White House officials and lawyers agreed to reduce the administration order of the US Chief Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi to seize the city police department as a federal.
According to the new agreement, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department will be under the control of DC Police Chief Pamela Smith instead of Terry Cole. in accordance with with Reports.
According to the sponsors of the joint decision, the president tried to rationally rationalize the local police under the lowest point of federal control of the local police and forcing a misleading account of the DC’s crime rate, and recently bringing the lowest score to the lowest point in three years and increasing the militarization of the city.
“President Trump’s attacks against DC for decades are among the most terrible attacks on the DC home rule for decades, Nort said Norton. “DC residents are worthy of the same autonomy given to the state residents.
MPs, DC, police, fire, emergency service and other security programs for locally produced funds by preventing access to $ 1 billion by preventing public security, he says.
In addition, the decision states that Trump has removed most of the DC’s prosecutors or reassembles, has created a accumulated work in criminal cases and delayed justice for victims. In addition, approximately 1,600 people participating in the attack on the US Capitol in 2021, hundreds of people were found guilty attacked law enforcement officers.
