All posts tagged "D.C."

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's "testing" a plan for the federal government to take over Washington, D.C.

According to Bloomberg, D.C. residents have had the right to elect their own government officials since legislation passed in 1973, "though Congress is still able to review local laws and the city’s budget."

Although Trump has floated the idea of a federal takeover before to help reduce crime, Tuesday was the first time he said his administration was actually working on a plan with D.C.'s mayor, Muriel Bowser (D)....

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) quickly corrected herself after making a bizarre gaffe when describing herself on a recent podcast.

Host Alex Stein, whose desk featured a watermelon with cotton balls protruding out of it, introduced Boebert as "one of our greatest guests" and "arguably the most attractive woman on Capitol Hill."

Stein told Boebert, "You've always been so nice and, I mean this: you're one of the few people who's not afraid to be outspoken. And, like, you know, I feel like sometimes, because you're an attractive woman, people...they try to put you in a box. But...you have more balls than most of the men on Capitol Hill. And, I mean that with all due respect."...

Paul Strauss (D), the shadow senator representing the District of Columbia, blamed President Donald Trump's "unnecessary" military parade for causing the death of a 39-year-old woman after she was "dragged for blocks" by a truck carrying an M1-Abrams tank, according to The Daily Mail.

Sierra Nichole Smith was struck at the intersection of New York Avenue and Bladensburg Road in the city's Northeast quadrant on Monday as the tank was being moved to a rail yard in Jessup, Maryland.

According to a police report, the truck was heading east "when the pedestrian ran into the roadway, stumbled, and fell in front of the semi-trailer truck."...

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), who has represented the District of Columbia since 1991 and is now a nonvoting congressional delegate, said Tuesday there's no question she planned to run again to keep her seat in the House.

The civil rights icon turns 88 on Friday.

Politico reported that when asked if she would endure another election season, she responded, “Yeah, sure. I’m going to run. I don’t know why anybody would even ask me.”...

Legal experts are claiming that the U.S. Supreme Court may come to regret its emergency "shadow docket" decision allowing President Donald Trump to fire members of two federal boards -- a move that was considered illegal.

Without hearing the merits of the case, the court issued its ruling Thursday that permitted Trump to fire a member of the National Labor Relations Board and a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board, an agency that ensures federal employment decisions are not influenced by politics.

In a preview of Slate's "Amicus" podcast, legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern exclaimed, "He illegally fired people, and the Supreme Court just rubber-stamped it!"...

Donald Trump on Saturday received some bad news from D.C. when Judge Chutkan issued an opinion rejecting his effort to toss his election subversion case over claims of vindictive prosecution.

Kyle Cheney, senior legal affairs reporter for Politico, flagged the filing on his social media.

"BREAKING: Judge CHUTKAN has *rejected* Donald Trump motion to dismiss the DC case against him over claims of 'vindictive prosecution,'" Cheney wrote Saturday. ...