Washington Examiner by Kate Scanlon 10/15/2021
A bipartisan group of congressmen will introduce a bill to address the overfederalization of criminal law by counting the number of federal crimes, the Washington Examiner has learned.
The bipartisan bill, the Count the Crimes to Cut Act, would require the attorney general and other heads of agencies to produce a report for Congress totaling all federal criminal statutes and federal regulations with criminal penalties. For each crime, the report would need to provide details including the potential penalties for each offense and the number of prosecutions brought in the last 15 years for each offense.
Rep. Chip Roy, a Texas Republican who is teaming up with Democratic Reps. Hakeem Jeffries of New York and David Trone of Maryland, told the Washington Examiner: “Government exists to protect our liberty, not bury it alive under a pile of never-ending, unnecessary criminal laws.”
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