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  • House to debate, vote on whether to charge juveniles as adults in DC – WTOP News

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    Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., said she will speak Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday against four House bills that aim to change how crime is prosecuted in the nation’s capital.

    Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., said she will speak Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday against four House bills that aim to change how crime is prosecuted in the nation’s capital.

    The House of Representatives will debate and vote Tuesday on a bill that would allow 14 year-olds to be charged as adults in D.C. Another bill would repeal that discretion that judges have in imposing sentences for people under the age of 24.

    “These anti-D.C. home rule bills were introduced by members of Congress from Florida, Texas, and Louisiana,” said Norton in a news release. “These members do not represent D.C., are not accountable to its residents, and do not understand how the District operates. They have no business writing our laws.”

    Currently, defendants between the ages of 14 and 17 are prosecuted by D.C.’s elected attorney general.

    The Trump administration and the District’s U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro have said defendants under the age of 18 should be prosecuted in criminal court.

    “The D.C. Council has coddled young criminals for years,” Pirro said on Sept. 6. “They reject mandatory minimums that the law requires, they don’t force judges to follow the law. They have something called youth rehabilitation and incarceration reduction, as well as record sealing.”

    The bill to lower the age at which juveniles can be prosecuted as adults was introduced by Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas.

    The other bill to be debated and voted upon Tuesday was brought by Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donald. It would amend D.C.’s Youth Rehabilitation Amendment Act, changing the age at which a court is allowed discretion to impose alternative sentences, other than for certain offenses, and to seal a defendant’s records, from 24 to 18.

    On Wednesday afternoon, the House will debate and vote upon a bill from Texas Republican Rep. Pete Sessions, which would limit the role D.C. has in the selection of its local judges. And, a bill introduced by Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., would weaken the District’s limitations on police pursuits.

    “The more than 700,000 people who call D.C. home are fully capable of governing themselves, just as residents of Florida, Texas, and Louisiana do. I will continue to defend that right — tomorrow, Wednesday, and always,” said Norton, in Monday’s release.

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  • New Poll Shows 25% Of Americans Believe FBI Instigated January 6 Riot

    New Poll Shows 25% Of Americans Believe FBI Instigated January 6 Riot

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    President Joe Biden sat down with a “diverse” group of scholars and historians earlier this week to discuss the upcoming anniversary of the January 6th riots.

    How diverse? White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned it repeatedly at a press briefing Thursday.

    “He’s (Biden) met with historians before ahead of an important national moment, which we’re about to see, certainly, as it relates to January 6th,” she told reporters.

    “And he met with these historians — a diverse group of historians to hear … directly from them on their thoughts about our democracy here in this country and abroad,” she added.

    Jean-Pierre peppered in the word “diverse” three more times for good measure.

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    Over Half Of American Voters Either Think The FBI Was Involved In January 6th, Or Aren’t Sure

    That diversity likely did not take into account those who do not believe the Capitol riot was on par with the Civil War.

    As evidenced by one of those scholars, Sean Wilentz of Princeton, who told the Washington Post about his lunch with Biden and how January 6th reminded him of “what the secessionists were doing in 1860-61.”

    Secessionists were Democrats.

    “Go back and read what was going on in March 1861: They were worried about possibilities that pro-Confederates would enter the Capitol and actually disrupt the normal process of the succession of power,” Wilentz explained.

    Nor does Biden’s meeting with historians take into account recent polling that shows that 25% of Americans believe FBI operatives organized and encouraged the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

    Another 26% say there is enough doubt to make them “not sure” if the FBI participated in the events, while 48% believe that the idea that the FBI participated is either “probably” or “definitely” false.

    Informants for the FBI were undoubtedly a part of the planning stages of the January 6th riot and others have made numerous claims to their activities that very day.

    Steven Sund, the chief of the Capitol Police at the time of the January 6th riot, has suggested that the FBI had at least 18 undercover agents in the crowd along with an estimated 20 from the Department of Homeland Security.

    Representative Clay Higgins (R-TX) has claimed that there may have been “over 200” undercover FBI agents posing as supporters of Donald Trump inside the Capitol before the riot on January 6th, 2021. Evidence of those numbers has yet to materialize.

    RELATED: Poll Shows 40% of Democrats Want to ‘Cancel’ George Washington

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    Perhaps more alarming to Democrats is another recent poll that shows an increasing number of American voters believe the 2020 election was stolen.

    A new Suffolk University poll indicates that two-thirds (67%) of Trump supporters don’t believe Biden was legitimately elected president in 2020.

    This all depends on how the question was worded. While former President Trump’s claims of voter fraud have not panned out, there is ample evidence that the media and intelligence communities worked overtime to carry Biden to the White House.

    President Biden, according to reports, plans to channel his inner George Washington in a speech commemorating January 6th, a day Democrats put on par with the attack on Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and obviously, the Revolutionary War.

    Which is ironic since his party is actively trying to cancel George Washington.

    Daily Mail reported that Biden “will speak near Valley Forge, where 250 years ago, the then-General Washington organized the alliance of colonial militias during a bleak winter and ‘united’ them to fight for democracy against the British in the Revolutionary War.”

    “Biden will use the birthplace of the American army to accuse Trump of attempting to ‘dismantle and destroy our democracy’ by provoking his supporters to riot when he did not win reelection in 2020,” the publication added.

    The left tries to rewrite history perpetually. They do so when it comes to George Washington, and they certainly have done so when it comes to January 6th.

    Thank goodness for those scholars and historians. Oh wait, here’s Princeton scholar Sean Wilentz once again, suggesting that if Trump wins the 2024 presidential elections, he’ll get rid of all the real historians.

    “I don’t even want to think about what historians are going to be saying if Trump wins,” Wilentz said. “I just hope there are historians around.”

    Weird. Biden is meeting with historians to make sure they’re all on the same page regarding January 6th, not Trump.

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  • GOP Lawmaker Slammed For Ridiculous ‘No Such Thing As Gun Violence’ Take

    GOP Lawmaker Slammed For Ridiculous ‘No Such Thing As Gun Violence’ Take

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    Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) seemed more concerned about unborn embryos and fetuses than living children on Wednesday as he downplayed gun violence in the wake of a mass shooting that left six people dead at a Tennessee school.

    “There’s no such thing as gun violence. There’s only human violence. It’s intellectually unsound to state otherwise,” he said during a House Oversight Committee hearing. “And the number one cause of death for children in America remains abortion.”

    Many Americans, including Democratic politicians, have renewed their calls for better gun control laws in the wake of Monday’s shooting, but face resistance from Republicans, many of whom receive major financial backing from the gun lobby.

    Higgins was criticizing Democrats for repeatedly bringing up the statistic that gun violence is the leading cause of death for children in the U.S.

    That statistic is true, however. In 2020, firearms surpassed car crashes as the number one cause of death for children and young adults ages 1-18.

    Firearms accounted for nearly 19% of children’s deaths in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WONDER database. In no other similarly large or wealthy country are firearm deaths among even the top four causes of death for children, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

    Motor vehicle accidents and cancer are the two most common causes of death for people ages 1-18 in all other comparable countries, KFF found. The U.S. has by far the laxest gun laws and the highest number of civilian-owned firearms of its peer nations.

    This year alone, there have been 130 mass shootings in the U.S., according to the Gun Violence Archive.

    Higgins cited CDC data from 2020 to say that there were more than 620,000 legal abortions performed that year, comparing that number to the number of children ― 4,357 ― killed by guns.

    The vast majority of abortion procedures occur during the first trimester of pregnancy (before or at 13 weeks of gestation for an embryo or a fetus). Fetal viability, defined as the point at which a fetus’ survival may be possible outside the womb, is reported to be at approximately 23 to 24 weeks of gestation in the U.S.

    Social media users called out the flaws in Higgins’ “human violence” argument:

    Other commenters observed that Higgins’ self-proclaimed “pro-life” stance didn’t seem to apply to actual living children:

    Higgins is staunchly anti-abortion and pro-Second Amendment, and argues on his House webpage that life “unquestionably begins at conception.”

    He’s previously made headlines for other inflammatory remarks. In 2020, he threatened to shoot any armed demonstrators ahead of a Black Lives Matter rally, even though people are allowed to openly carry firearms in Louisiana. And in September, he was criticized as racist and misogynistic after he shouted at and made offensive comments to a Black climate expert testifying to Congress.

    Three 9-year-olds and three adults were killed at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday after a 28-year-old shooter, who police say legally purchased the two assault-style rifles and pistol they were wielding, opened fire.

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