{"id":18993,"date":"2025-08-13T18:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18993"},"modified":"2025-08-13T18:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T18:31:11","slug":"big-balls-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18993","title":{"rendered":"Big Balls Attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m hugely in favor of stopping violent crime, but using federal agents to get the job done\u2014and perhaps more worryingly, having the president direct how minors are charged\u2014is likely to get into sticky territory rather quickly. &#8220;Because D.C. is not a state, the federal government has unique authority to exert control over city affairs\u2014even amid objections from the residents and locally elected government,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2025\/08\/10\/dc-crime-trump-crackdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notes<\/a>&nbsp;<em>The Washington Post.&nbsp;<\/em>&#8220;The Home Rule Act of 1973 gave D.C. residents the ability to elect their own mayor and council members. A federal takeover of the D.C. police force would be an extraordinary assertion of power in a place where local leaders have few avenues to resist federal encroachment.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/08\/11\/big-balls-attacked\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/08\/11\/big-balls-attacked<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m hugely in favor of stopping violent crime, but using federal agents to get the job done\u2014and perhaps more worryingly, having the president direct how minors are charged\u2014is likely to get into sticky territory rather quickly. &#8220;Because D.C. is not a state, the federal government has unique authority to exert control over city affairs\u2014even amid objections from the residents and locally elected government,&#8221; notes The Washington Post. &#8220;The Home Rule Act of 1973 gave D.C. residents the ability to elect their own mayor and council members. A federal takeover of the D.C. police force would be an extraordinary assertion of power in a place where local leaders have few avenues to resist federal encroachment.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/08\/11\/big-balls-attacked\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[744,299,280,902,221,222,170,847],"class_list":["post-18993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-crime","tag-crime-statistics","tag-criminal-justice","tag-dc","tag-donald-trump","tag-president","tag-trump","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18994,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993\/revisions\/18994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}