For the first time in more than 100 years, the District of Columbia is working to overhaul its criminal code. The massive undertaking would have a big impact on the District's criminal justice system.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday in favor of a disapproval resolution that would overturn D.C.'s criminal code revisions. By a vote of 81-14-1, the senators passed the H.J. Res. 26, the ...

D.C. has been called lots of things, but “District of Crime?” That’s the moniker Fox News recently used for D.C. in a recent segment on a sweeping overhaul of the city’s criminal code passed by the ...

The D.C. Council granted second and final approval to a controversial sweeping overhaul of the District's century-old criminal code on Tuesday. According to FOX 5 D.C., the council unanimously voted ...

The Republican-led House has launched the first salvo in what could be a long-running feud with the District of Columbia over self-government in the nation's capital. In back-to-back votes, the House ...

The outcome in the U.S. Senate last week couldn’t have been more clear: 81 senators, 33 of them Democrats, voted to block a D.C. bill that revised and modernized the city’s century-old criminal laws.