District of Columbia Courts Home Rule Act

Under current law, Congress controls how the District of Columbia's court system is organized, even though D.C. has had home rule (limited self-governance) since the 1970s. This bill would remove that restriction, letting the D.C. Council pass its own laws about how its courts are structured and what jurisdiction they have — the same power that every state legislature already has. It's a straightforward expansion of D.C. self-governance that affects the roughly 700,000 people who live in the District.