Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett advocates for federal takeovers of New York City and Chicago
Jarrett: “The only recourse is for the president to step in”
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Gregg Jarrett advocates for federal takeovers of New York City and Chicago
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From the August 12, 2025, edition of Premiere Radio Network's The Sean Hannity Show
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): You heard Jeanine Pirro yesterday, Gregg Jarrett, talk about these young punks, they're 14, 15, 16, even as high as 17-years-old, and she cannot charge them with murder if they shoot somebody, or attempted murder. And then, she talked about a case where a young kid, you know, tries to kill somebody, goes before a judge, gets sentenced, and gets a lecture about, released on, I guess, their own recognizance, and told that they need to go to college. How does that keep anybody safe? And what happens when these people go out and attack other innocent people?
GREGG JARRETT (GUEST): Well, they're what the politicians in local government in the capitol are doing is incentivizing criminality. And the solution is so simple and obvious. When minors act as adults by committing serious violent crimes, they need to be treated as adults, and that means lowering the age for prosecution.
Currently, under DC law, 15-year-olds can only be prosecuted with a judge's permission. And that almost never occurs, mostly because the local prosecutor, the DC attorney general, refuses to pursue those cases. Even 16 and 17-year-olds are seldom charged as adults.
So, you know, the DC City Council will never change the laws because they're notoriously soft on crime. So, you know, the only recourse is for the president to step in and Congress. And as I say, you know, DC is a ward of the federal government, answerable to the federal government itself, mostly to Congress, but the president as well. And he can order National Guard troops in there. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals already ruled he had the authority to federalize California's National Guard troops in LA. He could do the same thing in New York, in Chicago. He can do it in Washington, DC.