To: DFG
Congress has a committee that functions as its state legislature, I thought.
How can a city do this?
4 posted on
11/02/2018 8:26:24 AM PDT by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: ConservativeMind
Simple solution … they belong to no state therefore DC residents lose the right to vote for President if they do this. Their elector is rescinded.
26 posted on
11/02/2018 8:39:17 AM PDT by
RainMan
(rainman)
To: ConservativeMind
That's the real question. The 23rd Amendment provides: "The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct."
Congress has delegated general legislative powers to the D.C. City Council in the D.C. Home Rule Act. Certain powers are expressly withheld, but the power to determine the qualifications of voters is not one of those. So the City Council can probably do this. However, Congress has reserved the power to repeal any law passed by the Council. Whether they exercise that power in this case is a political question.
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