Democrat Senator Gives Support for GOP Effort to Rescind 'Soft-on-Crime' DC Law

Democrat Senator Gives Support for GOP Effort to Rescind ‘Soft-on-Crime’ DC Law An aerial view of the National Mall from behind the Capitol, looking toward the Washington Monument, on Nov. 18, 2003. (NPGallery.nps.gov) U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) became the first Democrat to openly express support for a Republican-led effort to rescind a contentious Washington, D.C., crime law—a code that had been vetoed by District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser in a move subsequently overruled by D.C.’s City Council. The Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022 (RCCA), which would go...