The hearing, held at the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, included no Democrats as GOP lawmakers ripped progressive policies.
Republicans who hold a majority in the U.S. House and whose infighting is risking a federal government shutdown by week’s end sought to focus attention Tuesday on a frequent target, Chicago crime and Democratic criminal justice policies, in a field hearing of the House Judiciary Committee.
Republicans and those who testified attacked the prosecutorial policies of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who is “It’s clear that MAGA Republicans have done nothing to make life better or more affordable for everyday American people,” Chicago Democratic Rep. Danny Davis said in a statement, using the acronym describing former President Donald Trump’s theme of “Make America Great Again.” “They are wasting time, fighting each other, talking about other things to try and take the spotlight off their ineptness and ability to manage.
“The fact is every Democrat voted for the SAFE-T Act and supported Gov. Pritzker’s lie to the American people and every Republican voted no,” Miller said. Foxx told the Tribune she was not invited to testify at the hearing, which she described as a “clown show” and “an exercise in political theater that came at the cost of the exploitation of the loss of Black and brown lives.”
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