Biden not expected to veto GOP resolution blocking D.C. crime bill, Manchin says
President Biden said Thursday that he will sign a GOP-led resolution to block D.C.'s major revision of criminal sentencing laws in the nation’s capital should that measure pass Congress, a remarkable moment for a city that has gone full throttle on pushing Democrats to unite behind D.C. statehood in recent years.
Republicans have taken aim at provisions in the bill that reduce maximum penalties for certain crimes — Biden disappointed some and delighted others in the caucus by announcing that he did not plan to veto the disapproval resolution during the closed-door meeting. Patrice Sulton, an attorney who advised on the Revised Criminal Code Act, called the effort to overturn it “the most dramatic illustration of D.C. voter disenfranchisement seen in a long time" and warned senators thatIf “tough-on-crime lawmakers from other states” vote to block the revised code, they would be voting to “continue to have one of the worst criminal codes in the United States,” she wrote.
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