Jamie Raskin says Trump seeking “exact revenge” on DC voters, will deposit a resolution to end the federal takeover
Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) sentenced President Donald Trump’s decision to place the metropolitan police service under federal control and activate the National Guard in Washington, DC, announcing plans to introduce a joint resolution to end the emergency in the coming days.
Raskin, classification member of the Chamber’s Judicial Committee, is preparing a legislative challenge for President Donald Trump to resumethat the president declared on Monday under article 740 of the law on the rule of the domicile of the District of Columbia. The law allows the congress to end a presidential emergency declaration affecting the district after a waiting period of 48 hours. Raskin said he intended to introduce such a resolution later this week.
Raskin said in a interview with Axios This violent crime in the district has decreased in recent years and has questioned the basis of the emergency declaration. “It is a very extreme exercise of these powers, raising all kinds of legal issues,” he said.
He also linked Trump’s refusal to release equipment related to Jeffrey Epstein, describing the police decision “an opportunity to take revenge” on “the inhabitants of Washington, DC, who voted 10 against him on every occasion,” said Raskin. Last month, he called He “dangerous for health and public security” for Trump not to release all the documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein affair.
Appearing on cnn The arena Later Monday, Raskin accused Trump for “making” an emergency to justify executive action, despite the president citing Statistics on violent crimes and specific incidents in Washington, DC, as the basis of its decision.
Raskin contrasted this with January 6, which he described as “a real emergency”, saying: “When the Capitol and his own vice-president and the Congress were attacked by the violence of the crowd he was unleashed against us, and he sat on his hands for many hours and then said that he was not a real emergency.”
During the press conference discussing the federal takeover, Trump said Journalists are not in favor: “I understand that many of you tend to be on the liberal side, but … you don’t want to be attacked and violated and killed and killed.”
