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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you propose to get the federally appointed USAO, with a no paper rate of 67%, and federally appointed judges, many of whom used to be public defenders, to do that? [/quote]

[b]Every single judge has come from the list given from the D.C. Judicial Nomination Commission. Everyone still pretending that D.C. has no say in our local judges doesn’t know how our criminal justice system works.[/b]

As for the USAO - when the Council thought US Attorney Liu didn’t prosecute enough hate crimes in 2019, they had a hearing on that which prompted her to increase prosecutions. It’s insane to pretend that the Council has more leverage with a Trump appointee than with a Biden appointee. Especially since, if you watched the oversight committee hearings, every Democrat at least claimed they supported the efforts of local D.C. leaders. And the Republicans were dragging graves for low prosecution rates.

If local leaders actually asked national leaders for help with Graves, it’s hard to imagine that they wouldn’t get anywhere. But instead we just get a litany of excuses for doing nothing, as well as Council cheerleaders saying it’s fine for our elected leaders to do nothing.

They have time to do photo-ops at local parties (check out their Twitter feeds), but asking national leaders for help on the issue is too difficult? I can never understand why people go out of their way to excuse inaction and incompetence. Unless you actively want this city fail, there should be zero reason why you aren’t asking elected officials to do more.[/quote]

The DC Judicial Nomination Commission members are appointed as follows:

President of the United States (1 lawyer member)
Mayor of the District of Columbia (2 members, one must be a non-lawyer)
District of Columbia Council (1 non-lawyer member)
Chief Judge, US District Court for the District of Columbia (federal judge)
DC Bar (2 lawyer members)

As a DC resident, I only get to indirectly weigh in on 3 members of the Commission (two of the Mayor's appointees and the City Council appointee). So not even a majority of the Commission. [/quote]

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