{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases/norton-thanks-dc-vote-other-organizations-their-opposition-trumps-actions-dc", "Norton Thanks DC Vote, Other Organizations For Their Opposition to Trump\u2019s Actions in D.C., Call for D.C. Statehood", "2025-08-28", "2025", "2025-08", "Democrat", "House", "DC", "Eleanor Holmes Norton", "N000147", "norton.house.gov", "norton", "https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a statement thanking DC Vote for their outspoken support for the District of Columbia during President Donald Trump\u2019s attempted federal takeover of D.C.\u2019s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).\n\n\"I want to thank these organizations, including DC Vote, for their efforts to preserve D.C. home rule and further the goal of D.C. statehood,\u201d Norton said. \u201cTheir recent letter opposing President Trump\u2019s efforts to federalize MPD, which included 76 local and national organizations as signatories, proves that there is national widespread support for D.C. statehood and D.C. home rule.\u201d\n\nThe full letter and list of signatories follows:\n\nOppose Takeover of D.C. Responsibilities, Support Statehood Instead\n\nAugust 21, 2025\n\nDear Member of Congress:\n\nOn behalf of DC Vote and the 76 other undersigned local and national organizations, we write to express our strong opposition to President Trump\u2019s takeover of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, his deployment of the National Guard in D.C., and his request for more power over the lives of Americans living in our nation\u2019s capital.\n\nPresident Trump\u2019s actions are unwarranted. Under the Home Rule Act, the President may nationalize the D.C. Metropolitan Police when an emergency exists that requires such action \u201cfor federal purposes.\u201d No such emergency exists. Violent crime is down by 26 percent in D.C. compared to last year. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, violent crime in D.C. is at a 30-year low.\n\nThe high-profile crimes cited by the President, while unacceptable, served as a pretext to launch a takeover of D.C. We urge you to reject his and other people\u2019s efforts to continue federal control over D.C.\u2019s local police and/or to change the Home Rule Act. Taking any of those steps would be a violation of the American principle of self-government and send a single to your constituents that their local government may be next.\n\nInstead, we urge you to cosponsor and pass the D.C. Admissions Act, S.51 and H.R. 51. The President\u2019s actions make clear once again that Americans in D.C. are second class citizens in their own country. We must right this historic wrong by providing Washingtonians with full voting representation in both chambers of Congress. We look forward to working with you to fulfill the promise of American democracy by making D.C. the 51st state.\n\nSincerely,\n\nDC Vote\n\nA. 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Chapter of National Organization for Women DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice\n\nDC Democratic State Committee DC Jobs with Justice\n\nDeclaration for American Democracy DemCast USA\n\nDemocracy Defenders Action Equal Ground Action Fund\n\nFaith in Action National Network Feminist Majority\n\nFREE DC\n\nFree Speech For People\n\nFriends Committee on National Legislation Generation Vote\n\nGOODProjects Howard University Indivisible Indivisible Santa Fe\n\nLeague of Conservation Voters\n\nLeague of Women Voters of the District of Columbia League of Women Voters of the United States\n\nLong Live GoGo\n\nMetropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO National Action Network\n\nNational Association of Social Workers National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund National Organization for Women\n\nNational Women's Law Center Action Fund Neighbors United for DC Statehood\n\nNETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice Peace Action\n\nPeople For the American Way People Power United\n\nPublic Citizen\n\nReframe Health and Justice Rev. 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