Last Week was National Police Week. The House of Representatives Celebrated by Passing These Bad Bills.

Last week was National Police Week, and the US House of Representatives celebrated with one of its favorite pastimes: passing pro-cop legislation.

I wrote earlier about the vote to exacerbate the criminalization of poverty and push debunked myths about a “retail theft epidemic.”

The House also voted 243 to 173 (to 3 present) for a right-wing messaging resolution blaming the left for crime and praising our corrupt rapist of a president for reducing crime. The easiest way for Trump to reduce crime would be to stop committing it.

29 Democrats joined the GOP in voting for it:

Maggie Goodlander (NH-02), Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06), and Johnny Olszewski (MD-02) voted present.

The House voted 243 to 179 to criminalize bail funds by accusing them of insurance fraud.

32 Democrats joined the GOP in voting for it:

The House voted 219 to 204 to undermine federal monitorships, which are an important tool for federal judges to ensure compliance with court orders, settlement agreements, or consent decrees and remedy entrenched violations of federal law, especially in matters of civil rights, policing, detention, disability rights, the environment, education, and antitrust.

Don Davis (NC-01), Adam Gray (CA-13), Val Hoyle (OR-04), Ted Lieu (CA-36), and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) joined Republicans to vote for it.

Finally, the House also voted 308 to 116 for a bill to create duplicative requirements about posting information about states and cities that have cashless bail in order to fear-monger about crime and accuse cashless bail policies of increasing violent crime.

96 Democrats voted for it, and 114 Democrats voted against it. The House Democratic Leadership team was in the minority who voted for it.

Here are the 96: