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House GOP lawmakers took a step toward gutting a DC law that was inspired by George Floyd's death, but which many Republicans say is anti-police.

As nationwide attention continues to focus on D.C.’s rising crime rates following the U.S. Senate’s recent overturning of the D.C. Council’s Revised Criminal

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

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) celebrated House passage of the Parents Bill of Rights Act (H.R. 5) on Friday, which passed with a vote of 213 to 208 with no Democratic votes.

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

The D.C. Council maintains that the city's criminal code is dangerously obsolete and desperately in need of reform.

President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law legislation nullifying the recent overhaul of the District of Columbia criminal code, but the fight between Congress and local lawmakers is continuing.

President Joe Biden signed a Republican-led measure on Monday to block a relaxed Washington, D.C., crime law.

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/biden-signs-measure-nullifying-dc-criminal-code-revisions/"></div>WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law legislation nullifying the recent overhaul of the District of Columbia criminal code, but the fight between Congress and local lawmakers is continuing. The signature merely marks the end of a raucous first chapter in a saga that has left district lawmakers bitterly...

President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law legislation nullifying the recent overhaul of the District of Columbia criminal code, but the fight between Congress and local lawmakers is continuing.