The city council approved this bill on two separate votes unanimously. But when it went to the mayor, she had raised concerns about this reduction of penalties for certain offenses and also concerns about reinstating the right to a jury trial. The measure was then sent to Congress for the congressional review period we talked about earlier.
DC is baby.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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