D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton condemned Thursday the actions of two Republican colleagues who want to pass another resolution nullifying the city’s Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Amendment Act.
Reps. Andrew Clyde (R-Georgia) and Andrew Garbarino (R-New York) want to nix the bill aiming to reform D.C. policing, which was crafted in the wake of George Floyd’s 2020 death at the hands of Minneapolis police.
“I am unsure why Republicans, and Rep. Clyde in particular, have a peculiar preoccupation with overturning D.C. legislation, a district they do not represent,” Norton said. “Rep. Clyde’s constituents should be concerned with his consistent choice to director his time, attention, and resources at interfering with local D.C. issues instead of solving problems for the people who elected him and who he represents in Congress.”
Norton said she will work to stop “the paternalistic, undemocratic disapproval resolution.”
Local D.C. legislation must be transmitted to Congress for a designated review period. If a disapproval resolution is enacted during the period, it prevents the D.C. bill from taking effect.
GOP House members, with some Democrats, successfully passed a disapproval resolution suspending the city’s criminal code reform bill and the measure passed the U.S. Senate in a bipartisan vote.