House Passes Bill To End Non-Citizen Voting In D.C.

Really, D.C. never should have had the authority to allow non-citizens to vote in the first place, being the seat of the federal government

House passes Republican-led bills to repeal D.C. laws on noncitizen voting and policing

The Republican-controlled House is poised to pass a trio of bills this week to repeal Washington, D.C., laws on immigration, voting and policing, even as it has yet to restore a painful $1 billion cut to the city’s budget.

The House passed two of the bills Tuesday. One would bar noncitizens from voting in local elections in the nation’s capital, overturning a Washington law that was passed in 2022. It passed 266-148, with 56 Democrats joining Republicans in support.

The other bill would restore collective bargaining rights and a statute of limitations for Washington police officers involved in disciplinary cases. It passed 235-178, with 30 Democrats voting for it and four Republicans voting against it.

Will there be enough Democrats in the Senate to push these through? Will the be down for cutting off the noncitizens voting and treating the police well? The force is already down about 16%, thanks to the anti-police sentiment of Democrats

Then, on Thursday, the House is expected to pass a third bill, the District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act, which would require the Washington government to comply with requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security to share information and detain undocumented immigrants. Under current Washington law, local authorities do not work with federal immigration officials unless they have judicial warrants.

Altogether, the bills represent House Republicans’ attempt to assert authority over deep-blue Washington at a time when the GOP has unified control of the federal government.

Congress is supposed to have control over D.C. government, and the city should not be protecting illegal aliens, being the seat of the federal government, for goodness sakes.

“D.C.’s City Council made radical decisions in our nation’s capital under the Biden-Harris administration, passing local laws that are woefully inconsistent with national standards or constitutional principles,” Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, the chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee who authored the GOP voting bill, told NBC News in a statement.

Of course, a problem here is that Los Federales try and put their hands in way too many cookie jars, instead of dealing with the core mission as defined by the Constitution, particularly Article 1 sections 8 through 10.

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