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House Passes Bill To Make D.C. 51st State
Conservative Brief ^ | 4/22 | Martin Walsh

Posted on 04/22/2021 9:37:24 AM PDT by TrumpianRepublican

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To: Onthebrink

Wanna bet. Romney will vote Yay.


41 posted on 04/22/2021 9:51:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

Legislature packing.

Like court packing.

Brought to us by Joseph Stolen who sits in the White House because of ballot box stuffing.


42 posted on 04/22/2021 9:52:04 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: dfwgator
52 stars after the democrats get Puerto Rico in.


43 posted on 04/22/2021 9:52:11 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

DC residents would be much better off being residents and citizens of Maryland.

Ask folks who moved out of DC to PG County and other jurisdictions in the area why.


44 posted on 04/22/2021 9:52:15 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: dfwgator

They’ll put the DC star right in the center of the flag; a huge one.


45 posted on 04/22/2021 9:52:30 AM PDT by SkyDancer (To Most People The Sky's The Limit ~ To A Pilot, It is Home)
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To: TrumpianRepublican

I thought they needed 218 vote to pass anything.


46 posted on 04/22/2021 9:52:59 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: TrumpianRepublican

US Constitution:

“To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;—And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

Nothing in there gives congress the power to create a State out of it.


47 posted on 04/22/2021 9:53:20 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: Bonemaker

Ain’t gonna be any white in the flag.


48 posted on 04/22/2021 9:53:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: All

What’s the likelihood the Senate will go along with it?

I think they probably will, but hopefully someone will convince me otherwise.

And of course if the Senate passes it Joe (Kamala), will gleefully sign it into law.


49 posted on 04/22/2021 9:53:23 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: TrumpianRepublican

Adding extra states, packing the courts and nationalizing election law have one thing in common. They need the Filabuster removed in order to pass. We now have one Senator who is in the way and she is a RAT. Who would have thought the fate of America now boils down to the Whim of one person?


50 posted on 04/22/2021 9:53:53 AM PDT by Nateman (Keep Liberty Alive! Article V!)
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To: BenLurkin

Problem is it’s bigger then at least two state’s population.


51 posted on 04/22/2021 9:54:01 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 )
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To: TrumpianRepublican

The District of Columbia used to be a square, and consisted of land taken from Maryland and Virginia in 1790. In 1847 the Virginia portion was returned. If D.C. residents want representation, then return the residential portions back to Maryland, and they can have full representation through that state.


52 posted on 04/22/2021 9:54:08 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: TrumpianRepublican

Call it New Soweto.


53 posted on 04/22/2021 9:54:22 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Bonemaker

Hey Nancy’s face is not on this flag you better do it over and make the stars look like Nancy


54 posted on 04/22/2021 9:54:23 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: albie

This would give the Dems two more Senate seats and one more rep. in the house. Thus making it even easier to pass controversial bills that it is now.
We have many RINOs in the GOP who will often side with the Dems.


55 posted on 04/22/2021 9:54:35 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: T. Rustin Noone

Deep State says what’s legal now.

The Constitution has been voided.


56 posted on 04/22/2021 9:55:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

And since the number of Supreme Court justices seems to be flexible reduce that number to three.


57 posted on 04/22/2021 9:55:11 AM PDT by Sparky1776
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To: TrumpianRepublican

According to Heritage Foundation, it is not constitutional ~
Not that it matters in 2021...The following article is from 2007:

Statehood is now the clear preference of Dis­trict of Columbia voting-rights advocates, but the proposal has never excited much support in Congress and would, in any case, also require a constitutional amendment since an independ­ent territory, subject to the ultimate authority of Congress, was a critical part of the Framers’ original design for an indestructible federal union of indestructible states.

https://www.heritage.org/the-constitution/report/the-constitution-and-the-district-columbia


58 posted on 04/22/2021 9:55:21 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If I wanted to live in China, I would move there!)
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To: napscoordinator

Democrats are probably looking at not making The Philippines (population over 100 million now) a State as a big mistake.


59 posted on 04/22/2021 9:55:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TrumpianRepublican

All Red States should split and form new two new Senators each.


60 posted on 04/22/2021 9:55:54 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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