House Republicans don’t like how municipal officials run elections in the nation’s capital and aim to do something about it. The GOP-controlled House is pushing a reform bill called the American Confidence in Elections (ACE) Act which would ban Washington’s practice of automatically mailing actual ballots to every registered voter, the use of mail-in ballot…

A coalition of election integrity and voting rights leaders made an unsuccessful 11th-hour appeal to the U.S. Senate on March 13 to block the District of Columbia Council from giving non-citizens the right to vote in municipal elections. Though the House of Representatives had passed a resolution of disapproval with strong bi-partisan support in February,…

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) became the first Democrat to openly express support for a Republican-led effort to rescind a contentious Washington, D.C., crime law—a code that had been vetoed by District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser in a move subsequently overruled by D.C.’s City Council. The Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022 (RCCA), which…

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Friday that he does not support a bill that would make Washington D.C. the nation’s 51st state, dealing a blow to the initiative that Republicans have panned as an unconstitutional power grab. “If Congress wants to make D.C. a state, it should propose a constitutional amendment. It should propose a…

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on April 30 that he doesn’t support legislation that would make Washington, D.C., the nation’s 51st state, dealing a blow to the initiative, which Republicans have panned as an unconstitutional power grab. “If Congress wants to make D.C. a state, it should propose a constitutional amendment. It should propose a…