Code Reform Commission News Today

Early this month, Rep. Henry Cuellar was carjacked by three armed criminals near the Washington Navy Yard. On Feb. 9, Rep. Angie Craig was punched in the face and assaulted by a career criminal in the elevator to her D.C. apartment building.

For nearly two decades, Washington, D.C., had been carefully revising its criminal code. It took a month to blow it all up.

The Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022, a unanimously passed piece of D.C. Council legislation, pushed statehood into the national discussion.

D.C. lawmakers and the mayor’s office are debating over what do to next with the revision to the city’s criminal code bill that was rejected by Congress last month.

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's proposed budget to defund the city's commission that helped create the soft-on-crime criminal code revision.

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's proposed budget to defund the city's commission that helped create the soft-on-crime criminal code revision.

D.Cs crime bill would reduce mandatory sentences for violent crimes at a time when the GOP is blasting Joe Biden and Democrats as soft on crime.

Patrice Sulton, who helped steer DC's criminal-code overhaul, explains everything you need to know about the controversial bill.

D.C.’s 700,000 residents have no senator to lobby against the bill. We can only plead, like subjects of a colony.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) will vote with the Senate GOP to roll back D.C.'s controversial criminal code reform measure -- meaning President Joe Biden would...