Big League Politics by Bo Banks
President Joe Biden just went around congress with his latest police reform executive order. His reasoning for the unilateral decision? Senate Republicans “stood in the way of progress.”
I’ve called on Congress to pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, but Senate Republicans have stood in the way of progress. That’s why this afternoon, I’m taking action and signing an Executive Order that delivers the most significant police reform in decades.
— President Biden (@POTUS) May 25, 2022
According to the White House, the “George Floyd Justice in Policing Act” was signed on Wednesday afternoon “to advance effective, accountable policing and strengthen public safety.”
Biden also says that this new executive order “will increase accountability, ban chokeholds, restrict no-knock entries, and more for federal law enforcement officers — and it incentivizes state and local officers to do the same.”…
