Washington, D.C., city council members rebuked House Republicans who are moving to commandeer control over lawmaking in the capital.
Last week, House Republicans unveiled a package of measures that would strip the council of much of its governing ability. GOP lawmakers, who’ve uniformly supported Trump’s authoritarian, military takeover of the district, are scheduled to mark up the bills on Wednesday. The Hill explained what many of the proposals would mean in practice:
GOP lawmakers are proposing that D.C. Council legislation undergo a 60-day congressional review period prior to its passage, while preventing council members from passing bills that are similar to measures disapproved by Congress. […] A separate measure would repeal the Incarceration Reduction Act, which allows residents convicted of certain serious crimes committed before their 18th birthday to petition the court for a sentence reduction after serving at least 15 years in addition to other expungement opportunities.
These proposals would deprive the D.C. council — and more importantly, the people who elected them to serve — of their fundamental democratic function, dispensing with one of the few outlets for representative government available to residents of the capital.
In a letter to Republican House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer and Democratic ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia, all 13 members of the D.C. council rebuked the proposals:








