Washington, DC, Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) sent a letter to the U.S. Senate on Monday morning in an attempt to withdraw the city’s criminal code revision legislation before the Democrat-controlled Senate is expected to vote with the Republicans on a disapproval resolution that would overturn the bill.
President Joe Biden is expected to issue the first veto of his term in the wake of Congress passing a resolution Wednesday to scrap his administration’s rule on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing in retirement plans.
A controversial soft-on-crime bill has become law in the nation’s capital, but some congressional Democrats are working with Republicans to block the measure.
The teen who ran over a mother and baby in Venice, California, in 2021 was fatally shot recently in Palmdale.
Georgia gubernatorial Democrat nominee Stacey Abrams was hammered by 102 sheriffs who signed a joint statement “condemning” the candidate for supporting the “Defund the Police movement” and “soft on crime policies.”
UK government plans to do away with short prison sentences could result in tens of thousands of convicts on Britain’s streets, “unleashing a crime wave” on citizens, a think tank report has warned. Civitas’s report published Monday predicts that the government’s
Conservative leaders are asking President Trump to oppose prison reform legislation, telling him to “trust” his instincts and calling the bill “prison release.”
