Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I am pleased that the entire panel appears to believe that exposure to speech that hurts is part and parcel of living in…”

D.C.'s local courts have faced chronic judicial vacancies for far too long, delaying justice for residents and placing an unnecessary strain on the administration of our local court system.

I will use every tool at my disposal to stop these riders from becoming law, and I commit to reminding my fellow lawmakers across the aisle that D.C. residents deserve the same consideration as their own constituents at every opportunity.

I’m gonna run. I don’t know why anybody would even ask me.

I am outraged at the number and scope of anti-D.C. home rule riders in the bill released today.