During a contentious House Oversight and Government Reform Committee markup on Wednesday, freshman California Rep. Dave Min was the lone Democrat who sided with Republicans on several proposals that would exert greater federal control over Washington.
Held in the final hours of President Donald Trump’s 30-day takeover of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department, GOP members advanced a series of bills aimed at codifying changes to policing, sentencing and self-governance in D.C. — a push that critics have viewed as an existential threat to home rule.
Min crossed party lines to support several measures, including one that would lower the age that minors could be tried as adults for certain offenses, legislation that would increase mandatory minimum sentences for violent crimes, and a bill that would repeal a D.C. law that implemented changes to local policing practices that Republicans have frequently criticized.
