The Democratic-controlled Washington city council on Monday withdrew a bill aimed at overhauling the city’s criminal code, which Congress had been set to overturn in a move that President Joe Biden had vowed not to block.

“The bill has been pulled back from Congress,” council chair Phil Mendelson said at a news conference, adding that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Senate advising that the bill had been withdrawn. …

Despite the city’s withdrawal, top Democratic and Republican Senate aides said the vote on the resolution would still take place.

[Nice try. Mendelson and his colleagues on the DC city council handed both parties a big, fat target, and they will have no incentive not to fire at it. — Ed]