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After Roe, some questions and concern over future abortion access in D.C.
Roe v. Wade’s overturning in June returned the regulation — or banning — of abortion to particular person states and a minimum of 15 states have since ceased almost all abortion providers.
Nonetheless, there are some questions on decidedly non-state Washington, D.C.
As a federal district, it operates beneath the 1973 House Rule Act, which supplies sure authority to the D.C. mayor and 13 elected councilmembers however reserves for Congress the final word energy to control.
D.C. has a number of the least restrictive abortion legal guidelines within the nation: It’s authorized for all phases of being pregnant. Nonetheless, due to the district’s distinctive standing beneath Congress, abortion entry has different caveats. Medicaid funding, for instance, can’t be used as it could actually in states.
With the Republican Get together hoping to retake the Home and Senate in November — a possible end result a minimum of within the Home, in response to FiveThirtyEight — some conservative lawmakers have brazenly mused about making an attempt to repeal the district’s restricted autonomy and abortion entry together with it.
In previous makes an attempt to limit abortions within the district, native councilmembers may depend on Roe as a authorized barricade. The post-Roe future is extra unsure.
Probably the most outspoken opponent of residence rule is Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., who mentioned in February he deliberate to introduce laws to successfully dissolve what he deemed a “failed experiment.”
“My forthcoming laws to repeal D.C.’s House Rule Act will comply with and uphold the Structure, interval,” Clyde advised Politico in June, after the Supreme Court docket reversed Roe. “Regardless of the Left’s lie that ladies have a constitutional proper to abortion, the Structure clearly secures an unalienable proper to reside — but it surely doesn’t present a proper to abortion.”
D.C. Councilmember Brianne Nadeau mentioned the proposals by Clyde and different conservatives referred to as for heightened warning from native officers.
Demonstrators are seen on Structure Avenue throughout a march for abortion rights in response to the Supreme Courts leaked draft opinion indicating the Court docket will overturn Roe v. Wade, Could 14, 2022.
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“Every time a Republican member of Congress mentions [ending home rule], I feel we’ve got to be ready to guard our residents’ rights from being curtailed,” Nadeau advised ABC Information.
On Could 6, within the wake of the leak of a draft of the Supreme Court docket’s majority opinion putting down Roe, Nadeau launched the People Rights Sanctuary Modification Act of 2022. She referred to as it a wanted safety. If handed, it might forestall the district from cooperating in out-of-state investigations with the objective to impose legal or civil legal responsibility for abortion, contraception use and different protected conduct.
“My invoice additionally anticipates additional motion by the Supreme Court docket which may forestall individuals from upholding their marriage or receiving gender-affirming care,” Nadeau mentioned. “If there is a same-sex couple or a trans little one who wants lifesaving well being care, I wish to be sure that D.C. has already contemplated that future want for correct safety.”
Nadeau’s proposal additionally features a countermeasure — a non-public proper of motion — in opposition to state legal guidelines that empower plaintiffs to sue individuals they think are related to unlawful abortions, such because the novel Texas legislation handed in 2021.
Nadeau’s invoice is modeled on Connecticut’s Reproductive Freedom Protection Act, signed into legislation in Could, which shields abortion seekers from out-of-state scrutiny and state clinicians from lawsuits from out-of-state plaintiffs.
The D.C. Council held a public listening to associated to reproductive well being care on July 14, by which Kate Vlach, the coverage director for the Workplace of the D.C. Legal professional Normal, mentioned district clinicians had been “unsure if they could face legal prosecution for offering providers” to out-of-state abortion seekers.
In the meantime, the district’s non-voting delegate to Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton, has referred to as on Congress to rethink statehood and codify abortion into federal legislation — each dim prospects given GOP opposition, Democrats’ slim majorities and moderates’ help for the Senate filibuster.
Ward One Councilmember Brianne Nadeau speaks throughout the 2015 District of Columbia Inauguration ceremony on the Conference Heart in Washington, Jan. 2, 2015.
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At a Home Oversight Committee listening to on July 13, Norton urged: “Statehood is one of the best ways for D.C. to guard abortion entry for its residents.”
A repeal of the decades-old residence rule or a crackdown on D.C.’s abortion entry are additionally slim within the brief time period: Clyde’s plan has not risen to management stage. Kentucky Republican Rep. James Comer, the rating member of the Home Oversight Committee, advised Axios final month: “There have been no discussions committee-wide on this. That is an Andrew Clyde mission that he feels very keen about.”
D.C. Councilmember Nadeau advised ABC Information there have been bigger challenges to eradicating the realm’s autonomy.
“It is not that easy to take over a district that has had an area authorities for greater than 40 years, after which don’t have any different plan for it,” she argued. “I feel this issue will probably be a tough deterrent [for the Republican Party] to beat.”
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DC summer youth curfew to be enforced July, August
In an effort to reduce juvenile crime, the nation’s capital is enforcing a youth summer curfew for July and August. FOX 5’s Sierra Fox has the latest details.
WASHINGTON – In an effort to reduce juvenile crime, the nation’s capital is enforcing a youth summer curfew for July and August.
The city has identified seven focus areas where young people are frequently involved in crimes such as carjackings and robberies. The goal of the curfew is to keep kids out of trouble.
Kids under the age of 17 are not allowed to be out between 12:01 a.m. and 6 a.m., seven days a week.
“I think it’ll make a change,” said Jawanna Hardy, founder of Guns Down Friday, a non-profit in the District providing mentorship and resources for young men who have witnessed or experienced violence. “Every child’s story is different, every situation is different. Not all kids are out there causing trouble.”
The Juvenile Curfew Enforcement Pilot began in September 2023.
Since then, officers have taken 69 minors to the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services for curfew violations. Of those, 45 were released to a parent or guardian.
“Instead of sending them home, a lot of them … There’s a reason they don’t want to be in their home,” Hardy said. “I’ve been in a lot of homes where kids do not want to be there… so sending them home… Find out what’s going on in their home, why does that kid not want to be home?”
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Penalties for curfew violations include up to 25 hours of community service for the child.
Parents or guardians could face a fine of up to $500 or be required to perform community service.
Hardy believes more needs to be done to support youth.
“What activities, what services are we providing for these kids as an alternative to being on the streets?” she asked.
Families looking to keep their children engaged while they’re out of school can visit summer.dc.gov for activities to keep them positively involved.
The state of Washington, D.C.’s office market is worrisome, to say the least, but some sizable new downtown lease deals are still getting to the finish line.
Such is the case with the U.S. Travel Association and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), which have signed for a combined 25,745 square feet at 1899 Pennsylvania Avenue, just a few blocks northwest of the White House.
Both leases are “long-term,” and the companies are expected to move into their new spaces in 2025, according to development firm Sterling Bay, which owns the building alongside MRP Realty and Declaration Partners. JLL brokered the lease on behalf of the joint venture, while the U.S. Travel Association was represented by Tyler Bensten and Scott Hoffman of CBRE.
Additional lease details were not disclosed.
The 11-story, 192,000-square-foot office building is also in the midst of renovations — including an overhauled lobby, shared conference rooms and a new fitness center, among other amenities — which are expected to be completed by the end of this year.
“The building’s renovation is creating a new, functional space that is ideal for performing our work and meeting our future needs,” DeLisa Selwitz, U.S. Travel Association executive vice president of operations, said in a statement.
The pair of leases comes when such deals are desperately needed in the District.
The office vacancy rate in D.C. rose yet again this past quarter to an all-time-high of 22.4 percent, up 80 basis points from the first quarter of this year, according to a new market report from CBRE. Over 537,000 square feet of negative absorption was recorded in D.C. in the quarter as well, per CBRE, the fifth consecutive year of quarterly negative rates.
Nick Trombola can be reached at ntrombola@commercialobserver.com.
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